Rural Life
Environment Agency warns very wet year is 'delaying harvest time'
The Environment Agency today (Thursday, October 17) warned that “a very wet year is already delaying harvest time for some...
Environment Agency
Environment
3 people prosecuted for illegal dumping of 26,000t of waste
Three people have been prosecuted by the Environment Agency for the large-scale dumping of 26,000t of illegal waste, the equivalent...
Environment
Landowners urged to be vigilant for waste criminals
The Environment Agency is warning property and landowners to be vigilant for criminals who target their land and buildings to...
Environment
Waste company offers £100k to wildlife project following fire
A West Midlands waste management company has offered £100,00 to a local wildlife project following a fire at its Cannock...
Environment
Second man interviewed in relation to large-scale waste crime
A second man was interviewed yesterday (Thursday, August 8) in relation to large-scale organised waste crime through fly-tipping across several...
Agri-Business
Man arrested in Essex for organised waste crime
A man has been arrested in connection organised waste crime through large-scale fly-tipping across rural areas in Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire...
Other
Farmer fined for obstructing water pollution tests on his farm
A farmer has been fined for obstructing an Environment Agency officer who was taking water samples of suspected pollution on...
Environment
Newquay farmer ordered to pay over £340k following waste offences
A Newquay farmer has been ordered to pay £21,500 in conviction costs, a £72,000 confiscation order and around £250,000 in...
Environment
EA report shows water companies continue to 'underperform'
The Environment Agency has said its annual report on the environmental performance of England’s nine water and sewerage companies shows...
Environment
Dairy farmer gets suspended sentence for allowing slurry to run into stream
A Wellington dairy farmer has been given a suspended prison sentence for allowing slurry to run into the Westford Stream....
Agri-Business
Environment Agency urges farmers to prepare for winter slurry storage
The Environment Agency is urging farmers to start preparations now for winter slurry storage and to contact it if they...
Environment
Devon man sentenced to 32 months in prison for dumping waste on floodplain
A man from Devon has been sentenced to a total of 32 months in prison after he dumped thousands of...
Environment
Anglian Water fined over £50k for non-compliance
Anglian Water Services Ltd has been ordered to pay over £50,000 for failing, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a...
Environment
Welsh Water fined £90k for polluting River Wye
Welsh Water Ltd has been fined £90,000 for breaking conditions of an environmental permit at a sewage treatment works near...
Environment
Anglian Water Services Ltd to be sentenced in July - Environment Agency
Anglian Water Services Ltd has been found guilty of failing, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement to provide...
Rural Life
Farmer pollutes stream after collapse of a dam made of manure
Farmer Derek Dyer contaminated a private water supply and polluted a stream after a slurry store built from farmyard manure...
Agri-Business
Environment Agency board gains 2 new non-executive directors
Environment secretary Steve Barclay has made two appointments of non-executive directors to the Environment Agency board Brittany Harris and Maya...
Agri-Business
NDG: 'Farmers are currently facing the problem of too much water'
The National Drought Group (NDG) has said farmers are currently facing the problem of too much water, rather than too...
