An investigation carried out by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that a Sunderland-based firm had been operating for nearly a year without compulsory insurance th...
Teesside appear to be leading the way in health and safety excellence after two companies from the region have been honoured for achieving high standards.
Hartlepool-based Gus Robinson Deve...
Deemed as the new Candy Crush, Fraxinus is a free game invented by scientists and computer game experts to help discover the genes which are most likely to exhibit the most resistance to ash diebac...
Mr Kevin Higgins of Cookstown, has been made the subject of a £16,068.36 Confiscation Order, at Dungannon Crown Court.
The Confiscation Order, under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, was give...
As part of a settlement between a family in Pennsylvania and an oil and gas company, two young children have been banned from ever talking about fracking or the Marcellus Shale, a leading producer...
A wife-carrying competition at this year's Faringdon Folly Fest has been cancelled because organisers didn't get health and safety permission in time.
In the unusual "sport", husbands carry...
Culling badgers is the right thing to do to avoid "appalling consequences" for farmers, cattle and badgers, David Cameron has said.
The Prime Minister warned that the Government could spend...
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has welcomed the fact that both household and local authority collected municipal landfill rates in Northern Ireland have decreased to their lowest levels ever, a...
As well as intense floods, storms and droughts, a recent study carried out by US scientists indicates climate change may also be a contributory factor in an increase in violence.
The study...
A Lincolnshire firm that manufactures frozen potato products has been fined £16,500, with £571 in costs, after a worker was burned by hot oil.
Harvey Hopwood, the health and safety manager...
Defra have announced details on a consultation for a waste management plan for England.
It is a requirement under the revised Waste Framework...
Fracking should be carried out in the North East of England, where there are large "desolate" areas, according to George Osborne's father-in-law.
Conservative Lord Howell, who was Energy Se...
Many of the inhabitants of America's cities and towns may soon need a snorkel to get around, a new study has revealed.
By 2100, it is estimated that thousands of US cities and towns, includ...
It's been a bad few weeks for McDonald's in terms of health and safety. Following their refusal to serve a woman on horseback at their drive-thru in Greater Manchester, a Portsmouth pensioner has n...
A rather unusual incident at a McDonalds restaurant in Greater Manchester saw a woman on horseback turned away from their drive-thru kiosk as they are unable to serve customers on horseback for hea...
