A farmer from County Durham has been fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £4,000 in costs after a friend, who was helping him out on his farm in Stanley, fell approximately four metres throu...
John Lewis, trading as John Lewis Plant Hire and Contracts, has been sentenced at Laganside Crown Court. He received a suspended six month sentence on each of the five counts he pleaded guilty to.<...
A global defence company has been fined £250,000 and ordered to pay costs of £97,153 after one of its workers was crushed to death by a 145 tonne metal press.
The Healt...
According to a recent report, one in ten British animal and plant species could disappear. The State of Nature Report was compiled by 25 wildlife organisations and collated assessments of 3,148 spe...
An engineering firm based in the Midlands has been fined £133,000 after its emergency plans failed to prevent contaminated fire-fighting water and chemicals from polluting the River Anker.
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Scientists have warned that action must be taken on climate change after carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have broken through a symbolic threshold. A US Government agency lab, which feeds it...
An employee who had only been working at a solar panel installation firm for two weeks had a lucky escape when he fell through the roof of a pig shed onto a soft layer of animal waste, avoiding sev...
Stores in Northern Ireland have reported a sharp drop in requests for plastic bags, just three weeks after the introduction of a 5p levy.
Most of the big supermarket chains are yet to repor...
A chemical firm has been fined £120,000 after an employee sustained severe burns when he was engulfed by a fireball at a factory in Wirral.
The 45 year old from Kirby was kept in an induced...
Scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme have been monitoring ocean chemistry in the Arctic region, and have warned that CO2 emissions are causing a rapid acidifica...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the UK Government has failed in its legal duty under the Air Quality Directive to protect people from the harmful effects of air pollution.<...
The Government has been consulting on controversial new plans to extend permitted development rights to allow the construction of extensions of up to eight metres for detached houses and six metres...
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced a Triennial Review of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This is part of the Government's commitment to reform the pub...
Two companies have been fined a total of £794,658 after a driver was run over and killed by his own lorry.
Gary Walters was working for haulier Larkins Logistics Ltd when the incident...
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