The biggest reforms to the UK banking sector since the privatisation of the banks under Margaret Thatcher’s government have been formally approved by the Queen. The...
£3.5 billion will be taken from the government’s farming subsidies budget for efforts to improve England’s environment, it has been announced. On Thursday, the Department for...
Ministers from across Europe have put the finishing touches to blueprints that will give the European Central Bank (ECB) the power to close troubled lenders when...
A group of MPs are calling for greater restrictions on payday loan firms’ advertising strategies, after a report by the Citizens Advice Bureau revealed they were...
The government has approved plans for a 1.3km quay, along with facilities for building and assembling offshore wind turbines, in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. Work on...
With just six sleeps until the big day, Blue & Green Tomorrow is encouraging readers to think about donating even a small amount over the festive...
The Cottage offers a beautiful location for guests to relax in the Cotswolds and is available to book now through cottages4you. This detached and refurbished period...
More than half of councils in England that preside over greenbelt land are preparing to offer some of it to developers, while perfectly suitable brownfield sites...
Twenty Santas have delivered a tonne of coal to high street bank HSBC, as part of the World Development Movement’s (WDM) protest against the financing of...
A note to all investors: if your financial adviser or someone else tells you that investing ethically or sustainably is synonymous with poor performance, show them...
The much-debated energy bill has received the royal seal of approval from the Queen, meaning that it is now an official act of parliament. After receiving...
US environmentalist Bill McKibben has argued that the Obama administration has continued to promote the extraction of polluting fossil fuels – the majority of which need...
A new study has found that more than half of corporations are emitting unsustainable levels of CO2 when the figures are assessed from a science perspective....
British firm BP has announced it has made a “significant oil discovery” at the Gila prospect in the Gulf of Mexico – its first since US...
The Bank of England has announced that plastic banknotes are to be brought into circulation in the UK by 2016. It says they will bring greater...