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Thames Water appeal against £2 million fine dismissed

Thames Water Utilities Ltd appealed the £2 million fine handed to them following a guilty plea to an environmental offence, but the appeal has been dismissed.

The company was fined in...

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Employee sentenced after apprentice injured in fall from unstable box

An employee has been fined after an apprentice sustained serious injuries when he fell from a potato box lifted by a forklift truck.

Peterborough Magistrates' Court heard how in July 2018,...

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Hundreds of trees planted in a pilot to help reduce flood risk

Hundreds of trees have been planted as part of the first project to trial natural flood management techniques to help improve protection for the people of Leeds living near the River Aire.

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Fifty more towns to receive funding

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that an additional 50 towns will benefit from the £1 billion Future High Streets Fund, taking the total number of towns to benefit from the fund to...

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Regional plans needed to curb countryside carbon in Scotland

The Scottish Government has been urged to facilitate regional land-use plans to maximise the countryside's role in cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

The initiative w...

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New Scottish planning legislation costs could reach £59 million

Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Scotland has called for an urgent debate about how planning departments are funded, after it found the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 could cost them up to £...

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Vehicle servicing company fined after truck rolled and crushed employee

Volvo Group UK Limited has been fined after an employee was crushed at a depot by a truck, leading to serious injury.

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that in June 2016, an employee of Volvo Gro...

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Convicted waste fraudster has nine years added to prison sentence

A convicted waste criminal has had an additional nine years and four months added to his current seven and a half year fraud sentence. The defendant will now serve a total of 16 years.

The...

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Report discusses what to do with Scotland's derelict and vacant land

Scotland's Vacant and Derelict Land Taskforce has set out how it plans to help bring land back into productive use and prevent future sites from being abandoned.

The Taskforce, established...

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Co-op has called for quicker council action for food waste

The nationwide supermarket chain, Co-op, has urged local authorities to take action for a quicker roll-out of food waste collections and acceptance of compostable bags as part of the service.<...

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Fines for company and director over dangerous boiler work

A building company and its director have been fined for unsafe construction work around a domestic gas boiler that has resulted in a dangerous escape of gas. 

Birmingham Magistrates' C...

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€300,000 for Company following fatal explosion

On the 25 June 2019, at Nenagh Circuit Court, the Judge Tom Teehan imposed a fine of €300,000 on the Company Balfour Beatty CLG Limited for a single breach of legislat...

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Private appeal for Climate Action

The British Government has made a private appeal to senior Coalition ministers to help develop a more "ambitious" climate policy, as a result of growing concern that Australia is not doing enough t...

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Overall good levels of compliance from licensed industrial and waste sites

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their Industrial and Waste License Enforcement Report 2018 on 18 July 2019, and has found that ov...

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£600 million investment for English homes

Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced an investment of a further £600 million from the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) to deliver 50,000 new homes across England. 

The...

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