Freak weather ruins roads to the tune of £45M - Thurso
The cost of repairing the road damage caused by this summer's freak weather could be well over £45 million, the Liberal Democrats warned today.
The cost of repairing the road damage caused by this summer's freak weather could be well over £45 million, the Liberal Democrats warned today.
Commenting on reports that nuclear waste from power stations abroad has been sealed in concrete and buried in the UK, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary, Norman Baker MP, said:
The North West's mountain of untreated waste is still growing faster than the efforts of local councils to boost recycling, a local Euro-MP has claimed.
The European Commission has today (Friday 3 September) launched legal proceedings against the UK over nuclear safety at Sellafield, Cumbria.
The public gives full backing to changes in agricultural policy that encourage farmers to take better care of the environment, according to an independent study into public attitudes towards agriculture.
Following David James recommendations to the Conservative Party that they slash spending on the environment agency and reduce its staff by 1,286 a 12% cut, Norman Baker MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary, said:
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