A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of exposure of its workers and the public to the potentially fatal Legionella bacteria. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Merthyr Industrial Services (Biomass) Limited following an investigation of its premises as part of HSE’s response ...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work on a client’s property. A self-employed handyman from Cardiff, who does not wish to be named, regularly carried out work on properties managed by Rochefort Shugar Ltd and on 15 October 2010 was sent to a ...
A Cardiff construction site manager has been fined after failing to comply with two safety orders issued to protect workers from injury. Mr Haider Zaman, 53, trading as Pride Builders, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for ignoring two Improvement Notices served while he was refurbishing two residential properties in the Cathays ...
Do you want to know how the place you are eating in rates? The government’s Food Standards Agency has set up a website where you can check out the ratings (0-5) of food establishments including cafés, restaurants, hotels, pubs, clubs, schools and other places involved in the handling of food. You can find Cardiff’s ratings ...
An engineering company has been fined £100,000 after a worker was crushed to death at a factory near Pontypridd. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Melloy Limited after shift co-ordinator Paul Thorngate, 44, was crushed by a falling crate of aluminium car parts, while working overtime at the company’s Treforest Industrial Estate premises. The ...
Energy giant, RWE npower and contractor AMEC Group Ltd must pay a total of £510,000 after a maintenance worker fell to his death at a South Wales power station. The firms were sentenced over the incident that saw agency worker Christopher Booker from St Athan, fall around 12 metres through an unprotected opening in a ...
Health Minister Edwina Hart has approved the latest plans for the development of a new inpatient adult mental health unit in Cardiff. The new unit at the University Hospital, Llandough, will bring together existing adult and specialist services currently provided at Whitchurch Hospital and the Llanfair Unit, Llandough. The plans follow a review of mental ...
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Today, the MPs from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health launch the report of their investigation into the implementation of the recent NICE Guideline on treatment of schizophrenia. The Group took up this issue following responses to parliamentary questions, which revealed that implementation was the responsibility of individual NHS organisations and progress was ...
New draft legislation to overhaul mental health services in Wales were formally laid this week by Welsh Conservative AM Jonathan Morgan. The Cardiff North AM is the first Assembly Member to succeed in receiving approval in principle from the UK and Welsh Assembly Government for a non-government Legislative Competence Order. If the Order is finally ...
SnippetsCommenting on concerns over the provision of swine flu vaccinations to the under-fives, Shadow Health Minister Andrew RT Davies AM said: “These reports are a matter of great concern and I am seeking assurances from the Health Minister about how this affects Wales and the Assembly Government’s immunisation plan for the under-fives. “It is vital ...
SnippetsCardiff Council’s Park Services has worked closely with Whitchurch Women’s Institute (WI) to refurbish two special war memorials. The...
Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating...
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work...
A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff...
The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the...
Since the General Election councils in England and Wales have lost over 101,000 jobs and the Vale of Glamorgan...
A group of Barclays staff based in Cardiff have successfully completed the UK Three Peaks challenge in aid of...
The Public and Commercial Services union which represents civil and public servants has called on the government to invest...
On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste...
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