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Horrifying weapons wielded on Birmingham streets include hammers, a hockey stick and knuckle dusters Birmingham Magistrates' Court has dealt with multiple people in the last two months for being armed with chilling weapons Latest news email updates straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time.More info Thank you for subscribingWe have...

By Theresa Mohammed2021-07-14T05:00:00+01:00 Theresa Mohammed examines the draft legislation in detail, including the associated regulations revisions The Building Safety Bill, presented to parliament on 30 June and with the second parliamentary reading to follow this month, represents a systemic overall of England’s building regulatory framework, following Dame Judith Hackitt’s 2018 independent review of the building industry Building a Safer Future. While press attention has focused on building remediation and time extensions for defective building claims, there’s much more in the b...

Grey whales travel from waters off Mexico, where they calve, head north to the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska. One group stops off the west coast of Vancouver Island every year to feed. John Forde of the Whale Centre Tofino has been offering whale-watching trips for close to 40 years, and said the product used by fish farms kills more than sea lice on farmed salmon. It kills small crustaceans, such as crab larvae, which whales rely on in their diet. “There’s got to be different solutions,” he said Monday. He’s concerned for the whales and for the whale-watching sector if these...

  TORONTO -- A dispute is brewing between a foreign-owned aquaculture company and local conservationists and tour operators off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia over plans to dump pesticides in the water. Cermaq, a Japanese-owned company that operates a salmon farm near Tofino, B.C., is seeking approval to dump nearly one million litres of pesticide in Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve waters. The pesticide contains hydrogen peroxide, and Cermaq wants to use it to get rid of sea lice that affect farmed salmon. The company already had a three-year permit to dump pesticide...

County Longford PPN plenary meeting takes place this evening Reporter:  '); County Longford Public Participation Network (PPN) are holding their first County Plenary meeting of the year this evening, Wednesday, March 10 7pm. The online meeting link has been circulated to all groups and it promises to be a very interesting and informative session. Tess Murphy, PPN Secretariat who will chair proceedings said, “It is so important we stay in touch with our members and keep them up to date with our work and also areas that are of particular interest to the community right now.” Ms Murphy...