Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, has pledged that the UK will speed up green measures in an effort to halve its carbon emissions by 2025 compared to 1990 levels. This will see the UK putting in place...
James Glennon Packaging Ltd has been fined a total of £13,194, after a teenager lost a hand in a devastating work accident. Conor Fitzsimmons from Belfast was in his first week of employment with t...
At the crux of the energy bill currently being passed through Parliament is a measure designed to help improve the energy efficiency of buildings and cut household bills by as much as 44%.
T...
Defra and the Environment Agency have officially declared parts of East Anglia, including Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire as suffer...
The Inner London Crown Court has imposed a record fine of £75,000 on a rendering company for various breaches of its environmental permit, after being prosecuted by the local au...
Beer company, Heineken UK Limited, has been ordered to pay more than £10,000 after it admitted to three breaches of its environmental permit at its Tadcaster Brewery site. The company was fined £50...
A document released by the Department for Work and Pensions has outlined the "terms of reference" of Professor Ragnar Löfstedt's review, which was announced last month as part of a shake-up of the...
A farmer in North Devon has been ordered to pay £19,500 in fines and £4,190 in costs after pleading guilty to three environmental offences.
Peter Willes, of Higher Alminstone Farm in Woolser...
A mother was asked to leave Tesco on health and safety grounds this month, because her three-year-old son had a balloon tied to the handle of his buggy.
A security guard stopped Mrs Alicia C...
A waste company's "mixed messages" on safety may have contributed to an incident in which the driver of a refuse collection vehicle reversed over a female pedestrian, fatally injuring her. Team Was...
Supermarkets have been warned that the food labelling of fish is not going far enough to provide customers with the information they need to make informed choices on the type of fish to buy.
Barmy Butlins bosses have banned bumper car bumping at three resorts over health and safety concerns.
The bumpjoy edict requires that cars be driven sedately around a course in one direction...
Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has been fined again, this time £2,000, for breaching their discharge consent and releasing untreated sewage into a waterway in County Antrim.</...
In line with the extensive cutbacks currently taking place, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced that their Infoline telephone service, used for reporting wor...
Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings has applied for permission to appeal against its conviction under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, and the £385,000...
