Tag Archives: Environment

Yet another pollution notice was issued on a beach in Cornwall, this time because of a build up of fat and rags. Sewage was reported at St Agnes beach earlier this weekend. Although the warning has now been removed, the Environment Agency (EA) has issued advice to residents and visitors …

A university professor was taken aback when he received a handwritten letter vaguely addressed to him after he appeared as a guest on Radio Four programme ‘The Life Scientific’. The envelope had been addressed to the ‘department of Creepy Crawleys (sic) University of Gloucester, somewhere in Gloucester or Cheltenham, website …

• Walk, cycle or scoot short journeys: 38 per cent of car trips in London are under two miles and exhaust emissions from road traffic is the largest source of air pollution in Islington. By swapping short car journeys for active travel you will not only reduce air pollution but …

Postboxes in Oxfordshire were boarded up after congestion caused by road closures to create low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) meant postmen could no longer meet collection times. Royal Mail was forced to reduce services in Cowley and East Oxford after traffic was funnelled onto main roads making journey times markedly longer. …

Changes have been made to the plans for Spalding’s former delivery office building – as a scheme to transform the derelict landmark awaits a decision. Plans were lodged for flats and a shop in the empty building in The Crescent in October – prompting hopes that one of the town’s …

Plans have gone in to transform an eyesore in the town centre. As we have previously reported the former Spalding Sorting Office in The Crescent will be transformed into flats. Mr S Gareb has now lodged plans to change the use of the site to create 10 flats with retail …

Dozens of bodies will have to be exhumed from Bridgwater town centre to allow new flats to be built. Taunton-based developer Refresh Living No. 3 Ltd. applied to build 43 flats on a vacant brownfield site on Friarn Street, north of the busy A39 Broadway. Sedgemoor District Council’s development committee …

The residents of a Gloucester neighbourhood are ‘fed up’ as rubbish continues to be dumped on their streets. Full bin bags, discarded cardboard boxes and other debris has been left on the street outside Bartongate Surgery. The Gothic Cottages, on Barton Street, has also fallen victim to flytipping in recent …

Plymouth residents were delighted as a beautiful seal made an appearance in the city today (November 7). Mum Louise Durbin and daughter Amelia, 9, were having breakfast at Firestone Bay at 11am when they spotted the magnificent creature basking in the sun. Louise said: “It just came up by the …

A waste management company is set to convert two of its fleet of collection vehicles in Bristol from diesel to electric in a £600,000 investment. Grundon Waste Management will make the move within the next few months after trials to gauge the vehicles’ range found they were capable of operating …