A crime boss who ran an illegal waste site has been jailed for four years, within a day of being released from prison for firearm offences.
Hugh O'Donnell laundered millions of pounds in pro...
Official statistics published this month show an increase in the number of people killed at work last year. Provisional data released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE...
Employment Minister Chris Grayling visited Brussels this month to attend a meeting on the Pregnant Workers Directive.
At the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (E...
Newcastle's bid to harness the natural heat of underground water has reached a significant stage this week. Following four months of drilling on a former brewery site - the same brewery which produ...
A Wearside housing association has been fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £25,000 in costs after one its tenants died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The Sunderland based social housing landlord, Gent...
A County Antrim construction business has been fined a total of £3,000, plus £109 court costs, for making three separate polluting discharges to a waterway.
The case was heard at Ballymena M...
Hugh Corey of Dundrod, County Antrim, was sentenced this month for breaches of waste legislation. Environment and Heritage Services (EHS) officers first investigated a site...
An international firm has been fined more than £700,000 after two of its employees died in 2004 following an argon gas leak. The workers collapsed after the gas leaked from a large pressure vessel...
Drinks importer the Red Bull Company Limited has been handed a record fine of £261,278 for packaging waste offences. The London-based company pleaded guilty this month at Southwark Crown Court to...
Four men have been arrested this month after fuel laundering plants costing the Government £3.5 million a year in lost tax were dismantled in Northern Ireland.
Nine premises were raided in C...
Italy has warned of an ecological disaster as they battle to contain an oil spill that reached the Po river. Milan regional officials said the cause was almost certainly sabotage at a former refin...
A major UK construction company has been fined £185,000 after an Oldham worker suffered life-threatening injuries when he was run over by a reversing truck. The Health and Safe...
Tate and Lyle Industries Ltd has been fined £270,000, with costs of £90,000, after the death of a contractor working on one of its ships. The Health and Safety Executive (H...
Two firms have been fined a total of £126,000 plus costs after the death of a workman at a hotel in Buckinghamshire. John Robinson of Milton Keynes died when he fell 100ft when scaffolding collaps...
A Fermanagh-based timber company has been fined £50,000 for a breach of health and safety which led to a workers death. In 2006, Michael Lukan was crushed inside a machine he was repairing at Balc...
