Great Heck

The scene at after the train crash at Great Heck near Selby, North Yorkshire, February 2001. JOHN LEDGER. 14:33 Sunday 28 February 2016. 0. Have your say. A WEEK which saw Yorkshire celebrate the return of the iconic Flying Scotsman will end with ...

The charges relating to the Great Heck site allege that they kept controlled waste in a way likely to endanger human health or pollute the environment, failed to comply with a waste disposal permit by not keeping mixed recyclable goods under a sealed ...

The Environment Agency, which supervised the Great Heck clean-up, has insisted the waste brought to Welbeck has been tested and is not hazardous. But Paul Dainton, president of environmental action group Residents Against Toxic Scheme, said: “If they ...

Firefighters have been called out to the smouldering rubbish tip at Great Heck nearly 400 times in the past six months, running up a huge bill for the taxpayer, it has emerged. Crews mainly from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (NYFRS), but on ...

Local residents have been campaigning for the Great Heck site, near Selby in North Yorkshire, to be cleared since its operators, Wagstaff Total Waste Management Ltd, entered voluntary liquidation in July. The smell caused by the mass of mixed ...

Residents in the nearby village of Great Heck have had to live in the shadow of this smouldering pile of waste since July. The stench is just one of their concerns. It also raised concerns about about exactly what was burning, and whether it could have ...