Two firms fined £15k after slurry pollutes river
A Samlesbury firm has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 after farm slurry polluted waterways in the county and could have killed fish in the River Ribble. Withgill Farm […]
Carlisle Dairy Farm gives back to local environment after polluting river with slurry
Landspreading affected a tributary of the River Eden The Glebe Farm, Hethersgill, near Carlisle, has completed an Enforcement Undertaking following a pollution incident when farm slurry entered Highberries Beck, a […]
United Utilities gives back to local environment after polluting river with ferric solution
United Utilities PLC has completed an Enforcement Undertaking following a pollution incident where spill of acidic ferric salt solution from Rivington Water Treatment Works caused a significant fish kill in […]
Southern Water punished over ‘shocking’ wastewater spills
Southern Water has been hit with a record £126m punishment for spills of wastewater into the environment from its sewage plants and for deliberately misreporting its performance. The penalty will […]
‘Man with a Van’ fly-tipped in East Yorkshire layby – resident fined
AN EAST Yorkshire resident has been fined after hiring a rogue ‘Man with a Van’ who then fly-tipped his rubbish. Thomas Mavin, of High Street, Holme On Spalding Moor, paid […]
Nottinghamshire farming companies fined £28,000 for pollution that killed fish
Two Nottinghamshire farming companies have been fined a total of £28,800 for causing pollution to a pond through the discharge of maize silage effluent from Sutton Grange farm in Sutton-cum-Lound […]