Northern Ireland Environment Minister Edwin Poots has this month announced that he is to make an additional £300,000 in funding available to environment and conservation groups. A proportion of th...
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors have been making unannounced visits to construction sites across the UK in an initiative to underline the importance of having s...
A farmer and haulage contractor of Crevenagh Road, Omagh was fined a total of £5,000 at Omagh Crown Court on 11 October 2007 for a series of pollution offences.
A major airport services company has been fined £90,000 after a man was crushed to death at Heathrow Airport in 2008. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Avian...
Royal Mail has been fined £90,000 and ordered to pay £42,500 costs after one of its drivers was crushed to death. Colin Smith was standing between a tractor and a trailer at the Heathrow Worldwide...
Labour’s climate and energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has gone on the rampage and accused his political rivals of “ducking” difficult environmental issues.
Despite similar-sounding manifestos...
Organics recycling company TEG Environmental has closed its in-vessel composting operation at Hutton, after a prosecution was brought against it by the Environment Agency ov...
Northern Ireland Environment Minister Edwin Poots has outlined proposals for new legislation dealing with waste management and contaminated land.
Speaking before the second stage debate on t...
Attempts by the Tories to boost their green credentials have been attacked this month, after it emerged that the man who would be Environment Secretary in a Conservative government is fighting to s...
A sweet firm has been fined £300,000, plus costs, after an employee was crushed to death in one of its machines. Tangerine Confectionery Ltd was convicted at Bournemouth Crown Court of breaching th...
It seems real slaps will no longer appear on the BBC’s EastEnders.
Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor) famously slapped both Frank and Pat Butcher within seconds of each other during an argumen...
A gastro pub co-owned by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has been fined £30,000 for polluting a village stream with sewage almost over 60 times the legal maximum. Neighbours of the Yew Tree Inn i...
A Partnership Agreement between the Association of Rivers Trusts and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has been launched by the NI Environment Minister, Edwin Poots.</...
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has urged the Government to support a repeal of Directive 93/104/EC, which aims to limit work...
A discharge of raw sewage on the River Bann in Coleraine has prompted an outcry by a member of the Harbour Commissioners. Robert Anderson, who operates River Bann Cruises, witnessed items including...
