Rural Life
Company fined £26,000 after contractor injured in a fall from height
A manufacturing company has been fined after a contractor sustained injuries whilst working on the top of a machine. Manchester...
Court
Agri-Business
Midlands farm company fined for watercourse pollution
A farm company in the West Midlands has been fined a total of £120,000 for illegal discharge of anaerobic digestate...
Other
Welsh farmer fails to improve slurry storage, fined $4,000
A Welsh farmer has been fined over $4,000 for failing to comply with an order to improve his slurry storage,...
Agri-Business
Manchester meat wholesaler sentenced for six months
A meat wholesaler from Manchester has been given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, for failing to provide the...
Rural Life
Goat farm fined after worker fatally struck by telehandler
A goat farm in Yorkshire has been fined £180,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs for safety breaches that...
N.Ireland
Antrim farmer fined £1,250 for causing water pollution
A 58-year-old farmer from Co. Antrim has been fined £1,250, and ordered to pay a £15 offender levy, for water...
Other
Mixed-farming business fined £17,000 for harming water voles
A mixed-farming business from Norfolk has been fined £17,000 after it pleaded guilty to carrying out works on the River...
Agri-Business
Company fined £44,000 after poultry shed malfunction kills over 27,000 chickens
A company that manages poultry farms has been fined £44,000 after a computer malfunction in a broiler shed ventilation system...
Environment
Pair ordered to pay £240,000 for injecting waste into fields
Two men have been ordered to pay costs over £24,000 for illegally disposing of liquid waste from chemical toilets, abattoir...
Sheep
Cornwall farmer banned from keeping sheep for 10 years
A farmer from Callington, Cornwall has been banned from keeping sheep for 10 years after failing to provide adequate care...
N.Ireland
Fermanagh farmer fined for water pollution offences
A farmer from Co. Fermanagh has been convicted at Enniskillen Magistrates' Court for water pollution offences that caused fish kill....
Agri-Business
Farming company fined for polluting Somerset watercourse
Farming company Velcourt Ltd. has been fined for polluting a Somerset watercourse with dirty, ammonia-rich water, killing hundreds of fish....
N.Ireland
Armagh farmer sentenced for failure to isolate TB reactors
A farmer from Co. Armagh has been sentenced for failure to comply with notice to isolate tuberculosis (TB) reactors. Philip...
Rural Life
Former Derbyshire farmer ordered to pay £24,120 for illegal waste burning
A former farmer from Derbyshire has been ordered to pay a total of £24,120 for two offences of illegally burning...
Other
Farmer fined after worker becomes entangled in potato harvester
A farmer has been fined after a worker suffered multiple injuries after becoming entangled in the contra-rotating rollers of a...
Sheep
Man fined £11,000 for stealing over 600 sheep
A 26-year-old man from Herefordshire has been ordered to pay £11,000 for stealing over 600 sheep from four locations between...
N.Ireland
Armagh farmer convicted of transporting unfit animal
A farmer from Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland has been convicted of one charge of transporting a bovine animal that was...
N.Ireland
Farmer fined for breaching cattle movement regulations
A farmer in Northern Ireland has been convicted and fined in court after pleading guilty to charges relating to the...
