Travellers have built an illegal permanent camp using 1,000 tonnes of rubble in just three days after they were denied panning permission to park six caravans on the site. Around 12 dumper truckers arrived on the land close to the Swan With Two Necks pub at Blackbrook, in Staffordshire, at 3am last Saturday. Drone footage shows … Read more
Four multi-national companies – Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever are responsible for half a million tonnes of plastic pollution in six countries per year. A study by international relief agency Tearfund is the first to quantify the amount of plastic waste burnt in Brazil, Nigeria, Mexico, India, China and The Philippines. The plastic being burnt by the … Read more
Police have dumped black dye into a picturesque blue lagoon in the Peak District to stop Instagrammers posing for snaps during the coronavirus lockdown. Derbyshire Police, who last week tracked dog walkers and ramblers through the hillsides with drones, had been informed that people were continuing to congregate beside the water near Harpur Hill, Buxton. … Read more
How to make all your meals for EIGHT weeks: Savvy mum’s ‘dump and go’ food prepping trick is taking the internet by storm A home cook has revealed how she prepares up to eight weeks worth of food Using multiple freezer bags the woman prepares an array of selected raw meals ‘Dump and go’ refers … Read more