Birmingham Clean Air Zone: First month sees 44k fines

More than 44k fines issued for non-payment of Birmingham’s new £8-a-day Clear Air Zone charge in its first month – including more than 80 for the council’s own vehicles The Birmingham CAZ launched on 1 June but charging only started on 14 June It is the first emission charging zone for car drivers in Britain outside … Read more

Wasteful companies could have to come clean on how much food they throw away

Crackdown on firms that squander food: Wasteful companies could have to come clean on how much they throw away as Government is set to launch consultation on new rules The Government could make it compulsory for firms to publish their food waste The crackdown would be big boost for The Mail on Sunday’s War On Food … Read more

Roger McGough pens tribute to Great British Spring Clean heroes with poem dedicated to Lord Nelson

Poet Roger McGough pens a tribute to the Mail’s Great British Spring Clean heroes… with a verse that imagines Admiral Lord Nelson coming down from his Trafalgar Square column to help wage war on rubbish Poet and broadcaster Roger McGough, 83, wrote verse for nation’s litter pickers He is a fan of Mail-backed Great British … Read more

Joe Biden’s brother James abandons clean energy project in UK after a White House ethics review

President Joe Biden’s brother James Biden has abandoned a new clean-energy investment firm he launched in the United Kingdom after a White House ethics review and new rules aimed at banning conflicts of interest. James Biden, and his wife Sarah Biden, had started a limited liability partnership called 2BT, Financial Times reported, which planned to invest … Read more

EastEnders’s Paul Nicholls ‘fears he will die’ from harrowing drug addiction if he doesn’t get clean

Former EastEnders actor Paul Nicholls revealed on Saturday that he once ‘feared he would die’ from his harrowing drug addiction.  The actor, 42, who appeared on Albert Square as schizophrenic Joe Wicks, recalled the moment he pressed the ‘f**k it button’ in his brain during a four-day drug binge last year following a relapse. He began … Read more

Organisms found in NASA’s clean rooms may have already contaminated Mars, scientist warns

NASA is eyeing the 2030s to put the first human boots on Mars, but a scientist suggests the American space agency may have already sent forms of life aboard its Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. Christopher Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medicine, suggests that although NASA takes extreme measures to clean spacecraft and … Read more

Mrs Hinch shows fans how to clean window sills and tracks

Mrs Hinch takes to Instagram to reveal how she uses this £19 SonicScrubber to get her window sills and tracks sparkling clean By Emily Knott For Mailonline Published: 14:27 BST, 10 May 2021 | Updated: 14:34 BST, 10 May 2021 Products featured in this Mail Best article are independently selected by our shopping writers. If … Read more

Maths wiz Carol Vorderman is a fine addition to the Great British Spring Clean

Let’s subtract litter from these streets! Maths wiz Carol Vorderman is a fine addition to Great British Spring Clean after Japanese showed her the power of volunteering to pick up trash Carol Voderman says Britain could do better on litter and could learn from Japan The former Countdown presenter is among the stars waging war … Read more

Maths wiz Carol Vorderman is a fine addition to the Great British Spring Clean

Let’s subtract litter from these streets! Maths wiz Carol Vorderman is a fine addition to Great British Spring Clean after Japanese showed her the power of volunteering to pick up trash Carol Voderman says Britain could do better on litter and could learn from Japan The former Countdown presenter is among the stars waging war … Read more