A partner in a building and roofing company has been fined after a worker plunged nearly six metres to the ground falling through a fragile roof light and sustaining multiple injuries.
Przemyslaw Borkiewicz, 24, of Mutley, Plymouth, was carrying out the work at the Evans Halshaw garage in Saltash on 12 December 2012 with poor supervision and no safety equipment which could have...
South West Water is urging customers not to steal water from its public supply network or they could run the risk of prosecution. A standpipe hire service is available instead.
The advice follows the prosecution of several businesses earlier this year:
Keily Bros Ltd, a road surfacing company from Birmingham, contravened the Water Industry Act 1991 section 174 after using an...
Courts wasted an estimated £230 million of taxpayers’ money last year by needlessly locking up people on remand, figures published by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal today (18 August 2014).
During 2013, more than 35,000 people who had been remanded in custody went on to be either acquitted or given non-custodial sentences.
A company responsible for maintaining the grounds of a naval base in Cornwall has been fined after three workers were diagnosed with a debilitating condition that left them with permanent nerve damage.
The three men, who do not wish to be named, were employed by Babcock Flagship Ltd to maintain the extensive grounds at HMS Raleigh in Torpoint where they were exposed to high levels of...
Update: Alexandra Harris and Kieron Bryan have been granted bail - set at 2m rubles each
Before the judge Kieron Bryan said: "To be accused of hooliganism for doing my job as a reporter is the same as suggesting that every journalist who works in a warzone is a soldier or that the court reporter here today is somehow responsible for the...
A rapist who kidnapped and raped a woman after pretending to be a taxi driver to lure the victim into his vehicle, has been jailed today, Thursday 26 January, for 18 years.
Yuseab Woldeab, aged 27 and from Wilton Street, Plymouth, was sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court after being found guilty of two counts of rape and one of kidnap.
