Alderbrook School in Solihul has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay costs of £5,000 after pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 for fail...
Tree growers, politicians, scientists and landowners were meeting this week to discuss a strategy to control ash dieback; the deadly fungal disease which is threatening to kill 80 million ash trees...
A garden nursery based in Norfolk is the third company to be charged with corporate manslaughter due to the death of an employee in July 2010.
The incident occurred at Belmont Nursery in Te...
Yorkshire and the North East of England have, in previous years, enjoyed the fact that 100% of its bathing waters met the mandatory requirements of Directive 2006/7/EC, on t...
The Environment Agency announced in December 2011 that it had established a task force which was designed to crack down on illegal waste sites in England and Wales. And with...
Northern Ireland Enterprise Minister, Arlene Foster, has announced a scheme that will aim to address the increase in fatalities currently affecting the farming industry.
Supported by the Ul...
Gallaher Ltd have been fined £150,000 plus costs at Antrim Crown Court, after previously pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Order (Northern Ireland) SI 1...
A new body has been set up by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to advise councils on whether or not land earmarked for building is contaminated,...
A study undertaken by British scientists has revealed that certain pesticides can have a devastating effect on bumblebees.
Different colonies of bumblebees were exposed to the pesticides ne...
28 October 2012 is your last chance to have a say on the Proposals to Revise the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995 - CD243....
Highly controversial Government plans to cull thousands of badgers are set to be delayed until next year, after further questions were raised over the cost and effectiveness of the scheme.
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28 October 2012 is your last chance to have a say on the Proposals to exempt from health and safety law those self-employed whose work activities pose no potential risk of harm...
Controversy surrounding the badger cull which is to take place in Gloucestershire and Somerset continues as there are now worries over the cost of the cull.
Speaking in Parliament, farming...
A town in Gloucestershire is getting ahead of the rest of Britain by beginning to put up their Christmas decorations in October!
The team of highly-spirited volunteers in Coleford, Gloucest...
The Environmental Audit Committee, an influential committee of MPs, has said that laws which tackle wildlife crimes are "a mess". The Committee claims that confusion over wildlife laws means that c...
