The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted Edima Holdings Ltd, a Tamworth potato processing company, for causing a pollution which killed over 450 fish.

Southern Water sentenced to pay record £90 million in fines for widespread pollution after pleading guilty to 6,971 unpermitted sewage discharges.

Stephen Fenwick has been handed a suspended prison sentence following an Environment Agency investigation.

A scrap metal exporter and a middle-man broker have been told to pay over £800,000 for taking advantage of a quarry that became an illegal tipping site.

166 spot checks were carried out while, in addition, five people were also reported for lighting a large barbecue.