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Winvic has been hit with a £160,000 fine and ordered to pay £25,000 in costs for polluting a brook in the East Midlands. The contractor worked on the £67m East Midlands Gateway (EMG), where it built a strategic rail freight interchange that included a rail interchange hub and 10 logistics plots for the likes of Amazon and Games

A company has been fined £12,000 after a worker installing a roof light fractured his back and ribs in a fall. Renka, a Worcestershire-based supplier of windows and doors, was found to have breached workplace-safety regulations following the incident in Cheshire in August 2021. Workers from the company were attempting to install a roof light

Former NBA champion Paul Pierce has agreed to pay over $1.4 million in penalties after unlawfully promoting the EthereumMax (EMAX) cryptocurrency to his Twitter audience. In a statement published on Friday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against the former Boston Celtics player — nicknamed ‘The Truth’ — for making “false and misleading”

A contractor has been fined £20,000 for “a catalogue of health and safety failings” identified at a site. Daniel Taylor Builder and Architectural Woodworker was converting a former bank into offices when it was found to have left workers at risk from falling from height and exposure to hazardous substances, according to a statement from

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A contractor and client have been fined and a company director given a suspended prison sentence after a worker was crushed to death in Birmingham. Tawanda Chamwandayita, 37, died on 26 October 2017 when 17 glass panes fell on him while he was unloading a shipping container from a lorry on a job. A statement

A developer has been fined £200,000 after one of its employees suffered multiple skull fractures when falling from a roof. City Property (Glasgow) was hit with the penalty at Glasgow Sheriff Court shortly before Christmas. It followed an incident in April 2018 when asbestos surveyor Robin Williamson fell 8 metres through a rooflight. Williamson was