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...
A recent report has revealed that a three-year old boy had his head trapped between an electric security gate and the gate post at a Bournemouth primary school. Health and safety officials are stil...
A prominent Ulster building company has been fined for sewage pollution originating from one of its developments. FP McCann (Developments) Ltd from Drumard Road, Magherafelt was prosecuted by the...
David Cameron has made a pledge to cut carbon emissions by 10% in the first 12 months of the new coalition Government. Speaking at the Department of Energy and Climate Change</...
Battery collection figures for the first three months of the year published by the Environment Agency indicate a good start to meeting the end of year targets. The UK is co...
Environment Agency staff will no longer be allowed to fly anywhere in England and Wales and will now have to journey by train. Flights to Paris and Brussels are also banned...
Belfast-based construction company Fernwave Limited was fined £30,000, plus costs, after pleading guilty to three breaches of health and safety legislation brought against them by the
The owner of a Penrith wood processing plant has been fined £20,000, plus costs, after a worker had his foot completely severed by a log shavings machine. The owner, Allan Jenkinson, pleaded guilty...
A Government plan to hold a review of existing waste policy has been welcomed by waste management firms and environmental campaign groups as a way of bringing together and “accelerating” the existi...
