Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Diamond Jubilee will come early for six of England’s National Nature Reserves as the end of May will see them celebrating their sixtieth anniversary. Just one month before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, six of England’s most precious natural … Continue reading →

Firefighters are tackling a blaze involving silos of solvents at a factory on Calderbrook Road, Littleborough. One man was treated for burns to his arm while another was contaminated with bitumen, police said. Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service received … Continue reading →

An oil refinery which went bust is to close after administrators failed to find a buyer or the cash needed to keep it going, putting around 850 jobs at risk. The Coryton plant in Essex, which supplies 20% of fuel … Continue reading →

A Wellingborough wood recycling company has been fined 3,000GBP and ordered to pay 3,000GBP costs for allowing wood dust to escape from its yard. Larner Pallets (Recycling) Ltd admitted breaching the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for more than a year. … Continue reading →

An inquest for five men who died in an explosion at an illegal vodka factory has heard it was most likely started by one of them lighting a cigarette.   The five Lithuanian men died from the effects of smoke … Continue reading →

The captain and navigational officer of a cargo ship which ran aground off New Zealand last year have each been sentenced to seven months in prison.   The Tauranga District Court heard that the men’s gross incompetence bordered on recklessness, … Continue reading →

A 43-year-old woman whose car crashed into other vehicles at a petrol station forecourt in Gloucestershire has died.   The crash happened yesterday at Alderton Garage, on the B4077 near Winchcombe.   The woman, who was from Kingham, Oxfordshire, and … Continue reading →

The government of Bangladesh does not allow filming in these huge ship-breaking yards, so the BBC’s Simon Reeve and his guide Morshed Ali Khan took a boat trip to view one of the most spectacular sights of the Indian Ocean. … Continue reading →

Investigators examining the catastrophic 2008 Varanus Island gas explosion which crippled Western Australia’s (WA) gas supply have contradicted claims by plant operator Apache that the disaster was unforeseen and unforeseeable. The long-awaited report into the explosion was tabled in State … Continue reading →