Coastguard Rescue teams from St Merryn and Newquay successfully rescued a stranded beach walker tonight, in atrocious conditions, after he was cut off by the tide.

Two construction companies have today been fined £105,000 after one man died and another was seriously injured when a concrete slab collapsed at Heathrow Airport in 2005, despite an earlier recall of...

Lancaster, Southend-on-Sea and Swansea Bay join race for title The competition to become the UK’s first City of Culture in 2013 has entered its next phase with 22 cities submitting their Outline Proposals by...

At 10 o’ clock this morning Thames Coastguard received a call from the Riverside Country Park Ranger informing them that a young male had become stuck in the mud 200 yards offshore near the Riverside Country ...

M1 JUNCTION 25 TO JUNCTION 28 WIDENING

NEW WORK

 M11 JUNCTION 8 -  9  MAJOR MAINTENANCE SCHEME

A £10m scheme to improve safety on the M11 between Junction 8 (Stansted Airport) and Junction 9 will start on Monday 9 November.  ...

Saturday 7 November to Friday 13 November

Tower Hamlets and Greenwich in top ten lists of improving councils

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is highlighting the importance of managing health and safety risks effectively after a worker suffered a fractured wrist at a Gateshead packaging firm.

A team of offenders will continue their clean up of Albury Walk footpath in Cheshunt today, Friday 6th November, during Not in My Neighbourhood Week (NIMNW).

A1 Dishforth to Leeming, North Yorkshire

The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on proposals by Salford City Council to create a 6th Form and enlarge St Ambrose Barlow Catholic High School and to discontinue St George’s Catholic...

The Department for Transport has today launched an advertising campaign aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from car use.

Roadworks information for Highways Agency roads in South Lancashire, Merseyside, Gtr Manchester and Cheshire – 7 days beginning Monday, 9 November 2009.

Lancaster District Fairtrade supporters today welcomed the Government’s announcement of £12m new funding for Fairtrade as Douglas Alexander joined them to mark their fifth year anniversary celebrations...

New reports from the Better Regulation Executive have found that Companies House and the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS) have made, or are taking, positive steps in putting better regulation principles...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has made good progress putting better regulation principles into practice according to a new report from the Better Regulation Executive published today.

Work to install a new concrete barrier on the central reserve of the M4 between Junctions 15 and 16 will be completed overnight on Saturday 7/Sunday 8 November.

 

Weekly round up of road works in wiltshire, gloucestershire, somerset and bristol

72/09 The Metropolitan Police Authority’s Civil Liberties Panel held an open meeting at City Hall on Thursday 5 November to hear directly from environmental organisations, protest groups and individual campaigners...

Roadworks information for Highways Agency roads in Cumbria and North Lancashire – 7 days beginning Monday 9 November 2009

The National Measurement Office (NMO) is a risk-based regulator with good stakeholder engagement that is putting the principles of better regulation into practice according to a new report from the Better Regulation...

9 – 15 NOVEMBER 2009

The Department for Business today published updated regulations designed to improve the effectiveness of the UK’s system for collection and treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).  They...

NEW WORK

 M11 JUNCTION 8 -  9  MAJOR MAINTENANCE SCHEME

A £10m scheme to improve safety on the M11 between Junction 8 (Stansted Airport) and Junction 9 will start on Monday 9 November.  ...

Musician and graffiti artist, Goldie, today gave his backing to Bebo’s Big Think – Take Your Ideas to the Top, which is looking for young people to put forward innovative and practical suggestions on how to make...

This consultation started around the 18th September 2009 and ends on 24th December 2009.

Please note that the Consultation Document and the draft Impact Assessment have been updated from those originally issued...

This consultation started on 16th September 2009 and ends on 25th November 2009.

We were unable to obtain a summary of this consultation. For more details, visit its website.

The following documents relating...

This consultation started on 15th September 2009 and ends on 11th December 2009.

This consultation is seeking the views of staff, patients, students and other stakeholders on the future of financial support...

This consultation started on 2nd November 2009 and ends on 25th January 2010.

Who will this consultation be of most interest to? Manufacturers, caterers and retailers of foods suitable for people intolerant...

                             Tower Hamlets and Greenwich in top ten lists of improving councils The amount of rubbish recycled by the London region in the last year (2008-09) rose to 29.2 per cent – almost ...

Lancaster, Southend-on-Sea and Swansea Bay join race for title The competition to become the UK’s first City of Culture in 2013 has entered its next phase with 22 cities submitting their Outline Proposals by...

At 10 o’ clock this morning Thames Coastguard received a call from the Riverside Country Park Ranger informing them that a young male had become stuck in the mud 200 yards offshore near the Riverside Country ...

North east roadworks update – 7th november – 13th november

At 10 o’ clock this morning Thames Coastguard received a call from the Riverside Country Park Ranger informing them that a young male had become stuck in the mud 200 yards offshore near the Riverside Country ...

The Government has published a consultation today aimed at modernising the laws on street trading and giving greater control to local authorities on pedlary in their streets - including new penalties for those...

Charities and voluntary sector minister Angela Smith has hit out at unfair restrictions for charity collectors, after incidents of Poppy collectors being barred from rattling their tins in their local communities...

DWP057/09 Today the Government said it will rename Council Tax Benefit as Council Tax Rebate as part of the campaign to encourage pensioners to claim the help they are entitled to.

Lancaster, Southend-on-Sea and Swansea Bay join race for title The competition to become the UK’s first City of Culture in 2013 has entered its next phase with 22 cities submitting their Outline Proposals by...

Lancaster, Southend-on-Sea and Swansea Bay join race for title The competition to become the UK’s first City of Culture in 2013 has entered its next phase with 22 cities submitting their Outline Proposals by...

Lancaster, Southend-on-Sea and Swansea Bay join race for title The competition to become the UK’s first City of Culture in 2013 has entered its next phase with 22 cities submitting their Outline Proposals by...

Football legend David Beckham has lent his support to an engaging and imaginative new education resource from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which teaches students about the sacrifices made by...

Community clean up for broxbourne footpath

The European Union must re-build its leadership and reshape its core spending and economic policy to strengthen Europe's ability to compete on a global scale, Lord Mandelson said today.

The dangers of asbestos were on the timetable for trainee tradesmen at Aberdeen College this week with a special session led by an expert from the Health and Safety Executive.

Construction workers in the Lothians are being invited to an event this Monday (9 November) to find out more about protecting themselves from Silicosis − a potentially lethal lung disease caused by breathing ...

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:

Statistics showing insolvencies in the third quarter of 2009 are published today (6 November) by the Insolvency Service. 

                             Tower Hamlets and Greenwich in top ten lists of improving councils The amount of rubbish recycled by the London region in the last year (2008-09) rose to 29.2 per cent – almost ...

NE/388/09 The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is highlighting the importance of managing health and safety risks effectively after a worker suffered a fractured wrist at a Gateshead packaging firm.

Superfast broadband will bring an array of social, economic and health benefits to consumers and businesses across Scotland, Stephen Timms, and Minister for Digital Britain will say today.

The EU President should be decided by vote by all the people of Europe -...

For the Prime Minister Mr Gordon Brown to do as he promised and help all...

We, loyal supporters of The Rangers Football Club, express our dismay at the...

My mother was in the Land Army but, unfortunately passed away before the...

The three other Fenland Market Towns (March, Whittlesea and Wisbech) all...

The law clearly states that front foglamps should only be used INSTEAD of...

Every year tens of millions of sharks die a slow death because of finning....

Businesses are being urged to do more to help themselves when it comes to cutting red tape after a national survey revealed that many firms are finding it harder going than ever.

Embargoed until 00.01hrs – Friday, 6 November 2009 The European Union must re-build its leadership and reshape its core spending and economic policy to strengthen Europe's ability to compete on a global scale...