Supermarket giant Asda has accrued more than £55,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to two charges at its Slough store, under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served an improvement notice on the North British Distillery Company Ltd for alleged failures to control the risk of legionella in...
A construction company has been fined £17,500 after a teenage student on work experience fell eight metres off a raised wooden pallet.
The 17 year old had been on a pallet along with three...
A wood recycling company has been fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £3,000 costs for allowing wood dust to escape from its yard.
Health officials in Edinburgh have said it could take until the weekend before the extent of the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease is known.
One man has died so far in the outbreak a...
Brian Lloyd, from Ossett near Wakefield, was exposed in 2009 by the BBC's "Rogue Traders" for carrying out illegal gas work in homes. The self-employed plumber was under investigation by the
This year HSENI will produce a separate statistical booklet, reflecting accident reporting for the period 1 April 2011 - 31 March 2012.
It is HSE...
A recent report published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), "Waste Data Digest 12: Key facts and trends", shows that Scotland is changing its attitudes a...
A species of bee which has been extinct on our shores for a quarter of a century has been introduced into the wild.
Around 100 short-haired bees have been brought across from Sweden to repo...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published some top tips for organising celebrations as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in order to prevent so-called 'jobsworth...
We're feeling our age a bit at Cedrec Towers, but celebrating the fact that we're 18 years old today!
Back on 24 May 1994, Grunge was becoming less in vogue and we were staring to smarten o...
A new "community trigger" is to be introduced to replace the discredited ASBO scheme, and make it quicker and easier for police to investigate complaints of anti-social behaviour.
Under the...
The Government today published its draft Energy Bill, which is designed to encourage major investment in clean energy generation, and is expected to come into force in the Autumn.
Critics h...
Following the wettest April on record, the Environment Agency has announced that 19 parts of England are no longer in drought.
Heavy and persistent rain in the South...
The Committee on Climate Change has published a report which recommends that local authorities in the UK should have a statutory duty to tackle clima...
