Environment

Plans to increase the cost of collecting bulky rubbish items could cause more countryside fly-tipping, councillors have said.

Villagers have welcomed news that plans for an asphalt plant have been turned down.

Plans to site a battery energy storage system at a 118-hectare solar farm have been submitted.

Children from six schools in the Fenland area met for a conference focused on renewable energy and saving our planet.

Hopes of a community orchard for March have been “scuppered” by Fenland Council’s decision to build a skate park on the chosen site.

MP Steve Barclay has blasted the Environment Agency for its “inadequate, last-minute response” to his calls for answers over a pollution incident.

Campaigners fighting a mega-incinerator in Wisbech have tentatively welcomed new rules announced by the Government to limit new waste burners.

Anglian Water has received its Final Determination from the water industry regulator in response to its £11bn plan proposed for the next five years.

In the UK, we’re lucky to share our gardens and green spaces with a wide variety of birds. But how much do we really know about them?

Anglian Water is urging Christmas cooks not to let cooking waste escape down the plughole this festive season.

It’s official: Boxing Day is still the most popular day for a walk during the festive period.

A landowner has failed to stop the reopening of a path, despite fears it will trigger a wave of crime caused by fly-tipping and trespassing bikers.

A councillor is ready to listen to public concerns following an application to convert 100 acres of agricultural land into a solar farm .

Uncertainty surrounds a major project to clear the Main Drain after “the complexity and cost of the scheme was underestimated”.

MP Steve Barclay has called on the Government to do an impact assessment on the proposed Wisbech mega-incinerator in a bid to stop it being built.

Restoration is hoped to begin on a tower church spire next year - using similar methods to repair Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

It was supposed to be a landmark scheme that would stop drivers getting stuck on Britain’s most flooded road.

Works to install innovative electronic signs on a stretch of road which often becomes impassable as a result of flooding have kicked off.

With temperatures set to plunge this coming week the county’s road gritting fleet is standing by and ready to roll.

Fake breasts, an unemptied catheter,urine-filled bottles, and a 21-year-old crisp packet are the more unusual items found by a litter-picking duo.