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Thames Water has been fined £2.3 million after a stream was polluted by sewage. A court heard failure to address equipment faults at a sewage-treatment plant in Oxfordshire made the incident “entirely foreseeable”. Sewage with high levels of ammonia was released into Fawley Court Ditch at Henley-on-Thames in 2016, killing 1,144 fish and other water life. Poor management at the plant was laid bare at Aylesbury Crown Court. Thames Water’s treatment works at Henley had no adequate monitoring in place to manage the risk of pollution, made worse by staff not responding to alarms highlightin...

Packaging firm fined for environmental breach Richard Stuart-Turner Friday, February 5, 2021 Flexible packaging printer Arrow Film Converters has been fined over £17,500 for operating without an Environmental Permit and allowing harmful emissions to be released into the local environment. Arrow Film Converters predominantly serves clients in the food packaging industry. Image: Google Maps The Castleford, Wakefield, West Yorkshire-based business largely serves clients in the food packaging industry. Wakefield Council said that the company’s failure at the...

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...

Lincolnshire man prosecuted for waste failings Peter Higgins given suspended sentence for illegally storing and burning waste at Gedney Dyke. From: Higgins illegally stored and burned rubbish at the site for over two years, despite repeated warnings from the Environment Agency A South Lincolnshire businessman has been given an 18-week suspended prison sentence for storing and burning waste illegally at a site in Gedney Dyke, despite repeated warnings from the Environment Agency. He was also ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge totalling nearly £7,000. Peter Higgins, 73, th...

Gedney Dyke businessman stored and burned waste illegally  | Updated: 13:35, 27 January 2021 A South Lincolnshire businessman has been given an 18-week suspended prison sentence for storing and burning waste illegally at a site in Gedney Dyke, despite repeated warnings from the Environment Agency. He was also ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge totalling nearly £7,000. Peter Higgins (73), the owner of PJH Bathrooms, Kitchens and Tiles Ltd, based at Yew Lodge, Hallgate, Gedney Dyke, stored waste on ground next to the company showroom without a permit for over two years. He was als...