Roy Brett ignored repeated warnings about the number of skips and waste built up at his yard in Cressing through his company RJ Brett Contracts Ltd. Brett of Winstree Road, Stanway wanted the Environment Agency to believe the operation was completely legitimate, but the 66-year-old didn’t have an environmental permit to manage the site. After…
8 April 2026 Younger patients can now have blood tests at the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford, providing a more welcoming environment for them and their families. Nine-year-old Dawson Fluck was the first patient to be seen at the paediatric phlebotomy service, which has opened at the CDC at Stafford Park. The service is…
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is celebrating a strong endorsement from patient assessors after achieving improvements in every category of the national PLACE care environment survey. QEH Domestic Services The Patient‑Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) give patients a direct voice in assessing how hospital settings support high‑quality, compassionate care. From cleanliness and food to…
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The owner of a company hiring out rubbish skips in Essex has pleaded guilty to a range of offences over how the business was run. Roy Brett’s yard is nestled in green fields near Braintree, but he ignored repeated warnings about the amount of skips and waste built up at the site through his company,…
‘Community Fridge’ has become a lifeline for vulnerable Kingston residents Residents in Kingston are turning to a free food scheme at Kingston Environment Centre, where surplus food is made available to anyone who needs it. The project, known as a community fridge, is stocked by food that would otherwise go to landfill from supermarkets, helping…
Swiss financial data and market infrastructure provider SIX said Wednesday that it has launched an integration with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. The company explained that the move enables mutual customers to access, combine and analyse regulatory and reference data from SIX directly within their Snowflake environment. The collaboration is said to be designed to reduce…
Every year since 2002, Greenland has lost 264 gigatons of ice, causing sea levels to rise by 0.8mm annually. This may not initially seem like a huge rise, but when you consider that 10% of the world’s population live within 5km of the coast at elevations near sea level, it soon becomes an alarming statistic….
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