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A Dudley school’s sensory garden is set to flourish even more, thanks to a biodiversity grant. Thorns Primary in Quarry Bank boasts a fantastic garden completed last June, but now it plans to introduce rainwater ‘harvesting’, and enhance habitats by introducing lavender, fruit trees and bird boxes. Thorns is sharing in a £22,000 grant being handed to four schools and eight community groups or charities across the West Midlands by South Staffs Water, all for biodiversity projects. It is part of the 2020/21 PEBBLE fund to encourage and enhance biodiversity in almost three hecta...

Road stop in Erith halts illegal waste carriers in their tracks Vehicle seized during spot checks of waste carriers in Bexley. From: 1 February 2021 Environment Agency officers working with London Borough Of Bexley, the Met Police, Openreach and the Joint Unit For Waste Crime carried out spot checks on vehicles carrying waste Environment Agency officers working with London Borough Of Bexley, the Met Police, Openreach and the Joint Unit For Waste Crime seized a vehicle and issued 4 penalty notices while stopping vehicles carrying waste in Erith as part of Operation Cubo. The Enviro...

Corby career criminal jailed for stockpiling waste Skip man’s offences spanned a decade. From: Stephen Lack, trading as Abbey Skips, stored and burnt waste illegally A 68-year-old Corby man is behind bars after repeated waste offences spanning the course of the last decade. Stephen Lack, of Monkton Sidings, Corby, was responsible for an illegal waste site that put human health and the environment at risk. Her Honour Judge Lucking QC, sitting at Northampton Crown Court on 25 January 2021, sentenced Lack to 18 months’ immediate imprisonment after he had pleaded guilty to breachi...

Discovery, near Coleshill, has been dubbed 'Warwickshire's answer to Hampton Court' It is being excavated because it is in the path of the HS2 railway line which is being built  The manor building itself was first found two years ago and now aerial shots show the outline of its gardens They measured around 1,000 ft long and were created by owner Sir Robert Digby to impress his new Irish heiress wife in the 16th century  

Two severe flood warnings have been issued, meaning there is a threat to life and significant disruption.