Iceland boss Richard Walker has admitted the group still has a "mountain to climb" on its plastic-free pledge after it was forced back to the drawing board on two key trials.
TV naturalist Chris Packham is urging wildlife lovers to take part in the Big Butterfly Count 2019 to discover if the UK is experiencing a once in a decade nature phenomenon.
A call for Lancashire County Council to support the “traffic light system” of regulation for fracking sites has once again sparked a row over the authority’s stance on the subject – and the procedure for debating it.
Shale gas company Cuadrilla has applied to the Environment Agency to allow a new chemical in its bid to extract gas from under the Lancashire countryside.
Charging householders to legally dump their rubbish could trigger a rise in the illegal practice of fly-tipping, environmental campaigners have warned.
Anti-fracking campaigners say they are going to make official complaints over the police operation to help shale gas firm Cuadrilla get its equipment onto the Preston New Road drill site.
A Chorley businessman owning land home to a 200-year-old pub has hit out at fly-tippers dumping waste on the site – resulting in the council launching demolition action for the watering hole.
An area of open space will be maintained amidst a planned development in Farington Moss after South Ribble Council rejected a chance to cash-in by allowing the whole site to be used for new homes.
Electric bin lorries could one day be silently cruising the streets of South Ribble – but the plug-in rubbish removers are not advanced enough to bring them to the borough just yet, councillors have been told.
