Urgent Government action is needed to stop up to 50,000 people a year dying early from air pollution-related illnesses, says the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, in its report on Air quality.
Test Valley Borough Council is calling for witnesses after 10 tonnes of deadly asbestos and potentially dangerous chemicals were dumped in the Hampshire countryside in a series of fly-tipping incidents.
The UK government will head back to court this summer in defence of its plans to tackle air pollution after the High Court granted permission for a Judicial Review hearing, reports Air Quality News.
A Swansea man has been fined after being caught illegally transporting waste in the city.
Yorkshire Water has been fined £1.1million for illegally discharging sewage that polluted the River Ouse near York.
The owner of a hotel in Paignton, Torquay, has been handed a fine totalling £16,000 after admitting to a string of fire safety offences.
A self-employed business man has been £16,000 fined after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he fell through a fragile sky light on a farm building.
A Cheshire building company has been sentenced for safety failings at a building site in Altrincham where they were building residential houses and apartments.
A vehicle seat manufacturing company based in Ebbw Vale has been fined after a worker was injured in an explosion.
Two Derbyshire-based construction firms have been fined for safety breaches as a result of separate investigations into reported cases of carpel tunnel syndrome and hand arm vibration syndrome to employees.
