Environment

Countryside campaigners welcome a new plan for greater public access to the great outdoors Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at proposals to improve access for walkers and other outdoor enthusiasts.

Angry women are pulling together to protest against proposed fracking at a site between Blyth and Barnby Moor.

Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, has praised the work done by qualified bird ringer Jack Baddams to record bird populations and inspire young people at Creswell Crags.

New figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) show there are five fly-tipping incidents every day on average in Bassetlaw.

Garden waste collections for recycling in Worksop and Retford are coming to an end for 2018 as the service, provided by Bassetlaw District Council, takes a winter break.

A pregnant deer died after wandering onto a Nottinghamshire road with a plastic carrier bag stuck on its head

A green energy scheme from which thousands of households in Bassetlaw have benefitted, could be scrapped next year.

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is working hard to make sure the county’s wildlife is protected.

With the clocks poised to go back this coming weekend, there’s no turning the tide on the approaching colder temperatures, writes Coun John Cottee, chairman of the communities and place committee at Nottinghamshire County Council.

A major Nottinghamshire road has been closed northbound in order to clear up a 40 tonne spillage of chicken offal.

Fracking for shale gas can begin for the first time in the UK since it was linked to causing earthquakes in 2011.

The proud parish of Harthill with Woodall has struck gold in this year’s Yorkshire In Bloom competition.

A bid to ease planning conditions for fracking companies is set to be criticised by Nottinghamshire County Council.

Two Blyth cyclists will hit the road this weekend for a 90-mile tour of communities around potential fracking sites, and are inviting residents to join them on the way.

A menacing green-fanged spider with a painful bite which is becoming more common in the UK has been spotted in a wall outside a shop.

Huge, horny spiders have been crawling inside houses across Nottinghamshire this month as the official spider season booms into life.

Members of the Nottinghamshire Group of the National Vintage Tractor & Engine Club will be holding their annual ‘working weekend’ near Retford over the August Bank Holiday.

More than 100 social housing tenants in Worksop can now access natural gas mains for the first time, thanks to £180,000 upgrade works.

Nottinghamshire residents are being warned that an extra 50 billion flying ants are set to invade Britain this summer.