The shadow Environment Secretary, Rachael Maskell, has said that Labour is "absolutely" committed to retaining a recycling target of 60% by 2030 if the Labour Party is voted into Government, in the...
Hertfordshire based bakery company, Arnaouti Pitta Bread Bakery Limited, have been fined £36,000 for safety failings.
The company were inspected in April 2015 by the Hea...
Europe have slashed their energy consumption targets six years ahead of time, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of switching off around 400 power stations.
In 2014, the EU...
G4S Cash Solutions were fined £1.8 million for failing to protect their workers from the risk of Legionnaires' disease.
Following reports that an employee of G4S had contracted Legione...
Montway Ltd, a construction firm from Hertfordshire, have been fined £144,000 after a worker was seriously injured when he fell off a roof during demolition work.
Ioan Vancea, a Romanian l...
China and the US, two of the biggest contributors to global carbon emissions, have both ratified the Paris global climate agreement. Together, the two countries are responsible for approximately 38...
Kenneth Thelwall, company director of Thorn Warehousing Ltd, has been jailed for 12 months following the death of one of his workers.
The worker, Paul Williamson, who is a father of three,...
Ahead of a meeting of the G20 group of leading nations in China, 30 mayors from cities worldwide have called for rapid ratification of the Paris climate deal.
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of Londo...
The Government's goal of ultra low emission cars making up 9% of cars by 2020 have been predicted to be missed by half that target, in forecasts from the Department for Transport (DfT).
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An application for planning permission for a four megawatt solar farm to be located on the Nottinghamshire green belt has been granted by Gedling Borough Council. The planning committee considering...
Cardiff University is proposing a multi-million pound, five-storey Centre for Student Life. Aimed at being the "heart of the campus", it will include a welcome-point for students and the public, a...
A new study appearing in Nature Communications Journal has suggested that most of the countries in the world actually have little capacity to deal effectively with invasive species. Apparently, one...
Alcohols Limited has been fined £270,000 and ordered to pay costs of £25,009 by Wolverhampton Crown Court having pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at...
A woman in Birmingham spent her life savings of £11,000 on an extension to her semi-detached house, adding pillars, a canopy and metal railings to her property, to be told after completion she did...
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), alongside the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield, have issued a report about how good planning can deliver sustainable economic growth and housing. Howe...
