2025 News

A hospital trust has admitted it is likely that a new mum lost her baby daughter because the foetus was not properly monitored and there were no maternity beds available to deliver the urgent care needed.

A woman has received a six-figure settlement after her husband died from mesothelioma following exposure at Shell Refinery Co Ltd from 1961 to 1992.

Campaigners in Lincolnshire have restarted a legal challenge after a council decided that no Environmental Impact Assessment is required for a proposed oil well expansion which was quashed last year.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling and Walking (APPGCW) has recently (16 June 2025) released its report on illegal e-bikes which has identified a surge in battery fires linked to unregulated e-bike conversion kits, low-cost batteries, and poor-quality imports.

Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has issued a legal challenge to the government’s claim that the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill would not reduce environmental protections.

An inquest into the death of 15-year-old kickboxing world champion Alex Eastwood following an unsanctioned exhibition kickboxing match laid bare a “chaotic and disjointed” approach by match organisers, a coroner said. 

The widow of a former South Yorkshire miner says people who worked alongside her husband could have “key information” following his death from the asbestos cancer mesothelioma.

The campaign group Oil Change International (OCI) has written to the UK government calling for an immediate reversal of its decision to finance a controversial fossil fuel project in Mozambique mired in allegations of human rights violations.

A woman has received a six-figure settlement following the death of her husband, Michael, just two months after a fatal mesothelioma diagnosis.

Trade Union Blues have urged Manchester City Football Club to rethink a recently introduced minimum-game season policy, which they believe is the first of its kind in the country and unlawfully penalises fans unable to attend matches.

An inquest into the death of 16-year-old Rhianan Rudd, the youngest female ever to be charged with terror offences in the UK, has found there were missed opportunities by Counter Terrorism Police, Prevent, Derbyshire County Council and a number of mental health bodies in the period leading up to her death

The government’s decision to cut dedicated funding to walking and cycling schemes (active travel) by two-thirds was unlawful, Appeal Court judges have ruled.