Ashbury Chocolates Ltd has been fined £5,000 and ordered to pay costs of £3,485 at Kettering Magistrates' court after pleading guilty to breaching the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulation...
A study of over 300,000 property sales by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has concluded that installing measures such as loft insulation or efficient boil...
This week is Recycle Week - a national event to encourage more people to recycle more things more often.
The annual event is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and over the past d...
This summer, the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) and Gas Safe Register have joined forces to warn against the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning...
Staff at Waitrose supermarket have refused to fillet a fish for a customer on health and safety grounds, stating that the fish was too slippery. Health and safety is often cited in order to avoid d...
A Rochdale-based bedding firm has been fined £50,000 after inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the majority of its machines were unsafe to use....
Newcastle has been named one of the greenest universities in the UK.
Ranked 15th out of 143 universities in the People & Planet Green League 2013, the university has risen nine places since...
The Government has announced changes to planning guidance in England which will make sure that local communities will be given more powers in order to block onshore wind farms - an announcement tha...
June 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In celebration of this anniversary, 60 "Coronation Meadows" have been identified across the UK as part of a campaign to...
It's been revealed that the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) recently introduced Fees For Intervention (FFI) Scheme generated around £857,000 from 1 December...
Senior Tory backbencher Tim Yeo has put forward a plan to amend the Coalition Government's Energy Bill in order to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector by 2030. However, the plan...
Today is World Environment Day, which is celebrated on 5 June every year to spread global awareness about mother nature. Each year has a different theme, and this time round it's THINK.EAT.SAVE.
A waste crime lord has been sentenced to a further three years in prison, after failing to pay back the proceeds of his illegal business.
Hugh O'Donnell is still in prison serving four and...
A company boss has been sentenced to three years in prison for gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a worker at Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend, Newcastle.
After a four wee...
Aberdeen City Council has unveiled ambitious plans to turn a derelict landfill site into a giant solar power farm.
Working with the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG), the council are s...
