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Health and Safety Executive

An artist's sketch of the proposed new buildings including flats and The Stage, a large red brick building. The view is of the site from the train station, Youthscape can be seen in the background.

Delays to town's £136m project over failed plans

A building safety regulator says that plans for a new development do not meet legal requirements.

Beds, Herts & Bucks

The inside of the school kitchen during construction. There are metal tables and grills in the centre of the tiled floor. The room is messy and there are paper towels all over the ground.

Supervisor fined over asbestos exposure at school

An investigation found the site supervisor ignored warnings over a wall in the school.

A square opening is visible in a building site. It has a wooden edge around it and beneath it some building debris is visible

Apprentice's 'lucky escape' in concrete collapse

A developer is fined after the teenager was injured when a temporary cover collapsed.

Large concrete building with several storeys. There are towers on either side with a shorter section in the middle. There is a large number of small square windows on the building. The letters ADM are visible on a smaller white building in the foreground. There are trees either side of the building.

Flour firm fined £300k after worker loses finger

ADM Milling is sentenced after pleading guilty to a breach of health and safety law.

Northamptonshire

A woman wearing an RAF Police uniform, including a black beret and camouflage jacket, with a black dog by her side.

MoD and police investigating death of RAF corporal

A senior RAF officer has described the death of Cpl Rebecca Hudson, 32, as a "tragic loss".

A hammer, chisel and tape measure lie on some planks of wood.

Boss fined after builder fractured spine in fall

Builder Jack Croft suffered life-changing injuries in 2022, the Health and Safety Executive says.

North Yorkshire

The entrance to an industrial estate with a road leading towards a number of single-storey brick buildings and a sign reading Ditton Priors Trading Estate

Company applies for licence to make explosives

Mosaic Laboratories wants permission to manufacture explosives at Ditton Priors Trading Estate.

A slightly pixelated image of a young man with dark hair. He is sitting smiling in a restaurant and wearing a dress shirt.

Engineer crushed trying to move machine - coroner

Connor Borthwick, 22, was trying to move the machine in an act which had not been risk-assessed.

A pavement and road in West Road in Newcastle. There are two cones with some orange tape stretching across it.

School trust fined after woman injured by branch

An investigation finds a Newcastle school employed a man with no training to fell a tree.