In January 2010 new legislation came into force that require retailers selling batteries to provide collection and recycling facilities for their eventual disposal. Some town halls, libraries and...
Key states have reached what they consider to be a "meaningful agreement" at the Copenhagen climate summit. Five nations, including China and the US, reached a deal on a number of issues such as a...
This year saw the coming into force of the Climate Change Act 2008 and the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, both of which help to establish a fram...
This year saw the coming into force of the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008, which increased the number of situations in which people can be imprisoned for health and s...
Mariah Carey had vowed to make her public appearance at London's Westfield Shopping Centre an event to remember.
Unfortunately, the singer was left frustrated after her desire for 20 white...
A Friends of the Earth (FoE) report has this month revealed that the UK is currently throwing away over £650 million every year by dumping and incinerating waste which, if recycled, could save 19 m...
In the past 12 months, there have been two fatalities and numerous accidents involving workers falling from cages being used as temporary working platforms in Northern Ireland.
The first of two new fire and rescue service operational guidance generic risk assessments (GRAs) has been published, and offers guidance on turning out and arriving at the scene of an accident, an...
A man who was crushed in a tragic factory accident managed to walk away after building material weighing three-quarters of a ton fell on him, before he died hours later in hospital.
Kieran...
In an attempt to secure a new global deal to combat climate change, the world's richest nations have agreed to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
Leaders at the G8 Italy summit agreed for...
The Brazilian Government has said it will lodge a formal complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO), over the alleged export of illegal waste from the UK. The move comes as three men were a...
Building site employer Colin Holtom has been jailed for three years for the manslaughter of a 15-year-old construction worker.
The worker died instantly from massive head injuries when a wa...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have announced they intend to manage the transposition of the revised Waste Framework Directive
A construction worker is critically ill after falling into an empty water tank in County Down. The accident happened on a site in the Ashley Drive area in Bangor on Friday 26 June.
It took...
The collapse of conciliation talks in Brussels this month mean that the UK will keep its opt-out from the EU Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC. As a result, UK employees will continue to be allowed...
