An investigation has been launched into the collapse of a crane at a Carrickfergus construction site.
The machine, being used in an upgrade of drainage infrastructure in the Joymount/Scotch...
The UN's top climate official, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has said time is running short to agree a new treaty on global warming amid deep di...
Consumers will have to pay more for their batteries because of the new battery regulations, an industry expert has suggested. Recycling firm WasteCare chief executive Peter Hunt claims that manufa...
Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has been fined £2,000 for discharging untreated sewage into Belfast Lough, near Ballyholme Beach in Bangor. The offence happened in August 2007...
Energy Minister Arlene Foster is seeking views on the draft Bioenergy Action Plan, which sets out how Northern Ireland can capitalise on natural energy resources. Bioenergy is an organic based res...
The global community is currently engaged in negotiations to agree a successor to the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.
US President Barack Obama challenged world leaders at last month'...
Inspectors in the port of Felixstowe are currently examining 91 containers of rubbish that was allegedly illegally exported to Brazil by two Swindon-based firms. In July, Brazilian authorities accu...
Health and Safety Works NI, in partnership with ConstructionSkills in Northern Ireland and the Federation of Master Builders are holding a health and safety workshop designed specifically for the w...
A man was taken to hospital this month after a floor collapsed at a property in South Belfast.
The incident happened in the Fitzroy area, at a property which is currently undergoing construc...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has published a consultation inviting views on the structure and content of draft environmental permitting gui...
At the recent TUC conference in Liverpool, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised that laws to give temporary agency workers the same rights as full-time employees will be brought into effect wit...
A family Christmas without a tin of Cadbury Roses is almost as unthinkable as going without turkey, mince pies or crackers. But nothing, it seems, is sacred as the famous tins are to be ditched af...
Shoppers stared in bemusement as a mysterious giant cone-shaped object, covered in "green doormats", was erected in a Poole shopping precinct. Locals described it as a giant traffic cone, a witch’...
Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, and the 26 District Councils have begun an enforcement initiative, in order to ensure compliance with h...
The standard rate of Landfill Tax increased from £40 per tonne to £48 per tonne, on 1 April 2010.
The Government announced several years ago that it intended to keep raising the rate of Land...
