Environment

Sherwood Forest will be featured on tonight’s BBC Springwatch programme, as the team join staff to find out how technology is helping to care for ancient trees.

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

The Campaign for National Parks charity has welcomed the Westminster Government’s announcement of Julian Glover as the chair of a 21st century “Hobhouse” review into England’s National Parks.

A monthly kerbside collection of glass for residents is due to be implemented ‘as soon as possible’.

Children at Bagthorpe Primary School have been planting trees native to Nottinghamshire as part of a national project.

After Brexit, the hottest political potato at the moment is plastic pollution.

A greener environment and a healthier lifstyle were the messages behind a new community orchard that was planted by schoolchildren in Mansfield.

Sherwood Forest will receive an half-a-million-pound investment to help built the new visitors centre.

“I am proud to be here protecting this Earth.” That was the message from multi-faith minister Denise Tooley-Okonkwo as she spoke at a public meeting in Warsop to discuss fracking.

Check out a bird’s eye view of one of Mansfield’s “hidden gems”.

Today is Fly Tipping Friday - believed by experts to be Britain's biggest day for the illegal dumping of unwanted goods and discarded rubbish.

A developer fighting to build 400 homes in Warsop has launched an appeal after councillors rejected his application.

A Shirebrook firm has been fined for failing to clear up its premises.

A litter champion who is dedicated to removing rubbish from his local estate is one of four people to receive civic commendations from the Executive Mayor of Mansfield.

Mansfield District Council has been slammed by the Government as one of 15 councils that are failing to make progress with their local house-building plans and threatened to intervene to speed up the process.

A new monthly collection of glass for recycling from homes in Mansfield is being considered by the council.

Environmentalists from across Nottinghamshire came together to mark the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest.