A firm behind a hydro power scheme designed to produce electricity for 600 homes has been fined £4,000 for failing to prevent contractors from polluting the River Lyon and significantly damaging th...
After several discussions, postponements and objections, the pilot badger culls planned in Gloucestershire and West Somerset are set to be given the go-ahead later this year after final licence con...
On 13 March 2013, there will be a free environmental legislation workshop organised by MAS North East and delivered by Cedrec!
All SME Manufacturers in England are welcome to attend the wor...
A group of West Cornwall hauliers and the director of a skip hire company have been ordered to pay nearly £100,000 in fines and costs for illegally tipping thousands of tonnes of waste at a farm ne...
Biffa Waste Services Ltd has this week been fined £90,000, with costs of £26,949, after admitting to a host of pollution charges.
The waste company, which runs the Houghton landfill waste m...
A Wearside engineering firm has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £2,000 costs for endangering workers by allowing them to use machinery on which vital safety devices had been disabled.
With Muse due to perform at the BRIT awards this month, fans may be expecting the usual explosive act from them involving pyrotechnics. Indeed, the band had planned an all-guns-blazing performance...
A consultation has been published, which aims to gather opinions on the potential designation of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) in English inshore, and English and Welsh offshore waters.
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A fairground owner has landed in a heap of trouble after failing to take notice of warnings by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to fit an additional safety barrier on o...
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) construction inspectors are carrying out an intensive inspection initiative during February and March 2013.
This will focus on the...
Elland Steel Structures Ltd of Halifax have been fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 toward costs as a result of a serious accident at their factory in January 2011.
Bradford Crown cour...
A textile firm in Wakefield, West Yorkshire has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £15,000 in costs after one of its workers was killed by a falling stack of bales.
James We...
Muldoon Bros LLP have been fined £10,000 plus costs of £1,400 at Omagh Crown Court, after pleading guilty to three breaches of health and safety legislation.
The case arose from an incident...
The owner of premium drinks like Johnnie Walker, Baileys, Captain Morgan and Guinness has made the switch to using 100% of its electricity from renewables at its Norwalk headquarters in the US.
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As a consequence of an accident in 2011 which involved a worker falling more than three metres from a ride he was fixing, Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd, operators of Legoland in Berkshire, have...
