Groups of farmers in England can now apply for a Local Resource Option (LRO) screening study.
An LRO is a local water project designed to improve the reliability and resilience of water supplies in an area.
The studies help neighbouring farmers explore and rank practical options for improving water supply resilience and securing reliable access to water for the future.
This year, applications…
Operators found to be mishandling waste will face up to five years in jail under the new rules, while the Environment Agency will also be handed stronger powers to issue enforcement notices
Last summer, we visited a group of farmers in the Derbyshire White Peak. They shared what they’ve learned from growing herbal leys in improved grassland systems.
Working with Natural England’s Catchment Sensitive Farming adviser Ben Rodgers, who coordinates the project, farmers in the area have been trialling herbal leys over several years.
Together, they are exploring how multi-species swards…
One of the sites targeted by the criminals (Picture: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Vacant sites across London were turned into oceans of plastic, plywood and black bin liners by a gang of illegal waste dumpers.
Patrick Doherty, Martin Ward, Michael Ward and Simon O’Donnell would unlawfully occupy different spaces before directing convoys of tipper trucks to fill them with…
A bath filled with fish was discovered by firefighers in 2024 (Picture: Watford Borough Council)
Firefighters responding to a kitchen blaze made a rather smelly discovery after a bath-load of fish was found in a businessman’s bathtub.
Stephen Akuoko from Watford, Hertfordshire, ran Tribal Foods for over three years, supplying ready meals to local shops.
Watford Council’s environmental team had…
Joshua, Paul, and Judith Canner were previously jailed in 2024
The site is piled high with furniture, caravans, insulation, pallets and oil tanks
The Environment Agency is investigating a pollution incident after orange discharge was found in a stream in Cornwall.
Daniel Nugent, 41, is still banned from leaving Dubai four months after being thrown into a detention centre accused of insulting a man outside a hotel - but claims he never even spoke to him
Under the new Waste Crime Action Plan, illegal dumpers could face up to 20 hours of unpaid work cleaning streets and parks, as well as repaying the cost of clearing the waste they illegally dumped
Ministers are looking at handing the Environment Agency and its enforcement officers powers to hit criminals behind illegal waste where it hurts by disrupting their finances
'The damage they've done is so huge.'
How do you create dynamic habitat systems, that are allowed to shift, grow, and reshape themselves naturally, within the rules of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)?
BNG requires that developers leave nature in a measurably better state either on site and or offsite, after a development. BNG does this using a Statutory biodiversity metric that measures biodiversity value using, habitats as a…
'We're going to be the stinkiest town in Wales if we're not careful.'
People have been urged to "remain vigilant to the risk of flooding" with large parts of the UK already hard hit - and more facing a similar hell with heavy rain on the way
Sunshine is forecast for most of the UK on Saturday before new weather warnings for snow and ice come into force.
Credit: North East Cotswold Farmer Cluster
We’re pleased to share that the Evenlode Landscape Recovery Project is ready to move from planning to delivery.
This project is the first to be led by a farmer cluster.
Managed by The North East Cotswold Farmer Cluster CIC (NECFC), the project comprises over 50 land managers and farmers, including tenant farmers.
Together, they will start work on the…
Waste was dumped at six locations across the UK, including in Warwickshire
A flooded road in the Midlands, one of the areas hit particularly hard by the rain (Picture: Alamy Live News.)
A weather warning for yet more rain has been issues for the south-west UK, all but ensuring a biblical start to 2026 with 40 days of rain.
There have been no days so far this year where the country has stayed completely dry, with some areas hit particularly hard.
More than 200 flood…
It has rained every day in the UK so far this year, and more of the same is on the way.