N.Ireland
Tyrone farmer fined £1,515 for water pollution offences
A Co. Tyrone farmer has been fined a total of £1,515 after a sewage tank on his farm overflowed into...
Court
Rural Life
Norfolk man jailed for six months for illegal waste operation
A Norfolk garage owner who repeatedly ignored Environment Agency warnings about storing end of life vehicles (ELVs) and parts has...
Rural Life
Man and haulage firm fined for illegally dumping waste soil
A man has been fined for illegally transporting waste soil, and the haulage company from which he hired trucks to...
Other
Silage effluent: Farmer fined £15k for causing fish kill
A farmer in Leicestershire has been fined over £15,000 for illegally discharging silage effluent into a brook, causing the death...
Environment
Somerset farmer fined second time for polluting River Frome
A Somerset farmer has been fined for causing unpermitted discharge of slurry into the River Frome, after he pleaded guilty...
Agri-Business
Rotting carcasses found on Nottinghamshire farm
A smallholder from Torworth near Retford, Nottinghamshire has received a 10-year ban from keeping livestock, after carcasses of a pig...
Rural Life
Company fined £26,000 after contractor injured in a fall from height
A manufacturing company has been fined after a contractor sustained injuries whilst working on the top of a machine. Manchester...
Agri-Business
Midlands farm company fined for watercourse pollution
A farm company in the West Midlands has been fined a total of £120,000 for illegal discharge of anaerobic digestate...
Other
Welsh farmer fails to improve slurry storage, fined $4,000
A Welsh farmer has been fined over $4,000 for failing to comply with an order to improve his slurry storage,...
Agri-Business
Manchester meat wholesaler sentenced for six months
A meat wholesaler from Manchester has been given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, for failing to provide the...
Rural Life
Goat farm fined after worker fatally struck by telehandler
A goat farm in Yorkshire has been fined £180,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs for safety breaches that...
N.Ireland
Antrim farmer fined £1,250 for causing water pollution
A 58-year-old farmer from Co. Antrim has been fined £1,250, and ordered to pay a £15 offender levy, for water...
Other
Mixed-farming business fined £17,000 for harming water voles
A mixed-farming business from Norfolk has been fined £17,000 after it pleaded guilty to carrying out works on the River...
Agri-Business
Company fined £44,000 after poultry shed malfunction kills over 27,000 chickens
A company that manages poultry farms has been fined £44,000 after a computer malfunction in a broiler shed ventilation system...
Environment
Pair ordered to pay £240,000 for injecting waste into fields
Two men have been ordered to pay costs over £24,000 for illegally disposing of liquid waste from chemical toilets, abattoir...
Sheep
Cornwall farmer banned from keeping sheep for 10 years
A farmer from Callington, Cornwall has been banned from keeping sheep for 10 years after failing to provide adequate care...
N.Ireland
Fermanagh farmer fined for water pollution offences
A farmer from Co. Fermanagh has been convicted at Enniskillen Magistrates' Court for water pollution offences that caused fish kill....
Agri-Business
Farming company fined for polluting Somerset watercourse
Farming company Velcourt Ltd. has been fined for polluting a Somerset watercourse with dirty, ammonia-rich water, killing hundreds of fish....
