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LUSH, the Poole based manufacturer and retailer of fresh handmade cosmetics, last night received top marks in the Sunday Times Best Companies Awards for ‘being green’ with an unbeaten score (90% positive) for staff believing their employer ‘cares about the environment’ and coming 4th for ‘making a real difference in the world'.

This is the eleventh year LUSH has been in the top 100...

Christian Barber, 41, was sentenced to 59 months in prison for fraud and theft at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday 14 February.

His offending came to light in 2012 when one of his victims reported to police that she met Barber on an online dating website before meeting up with him in a Lincolnshire pub.

Barber told his victim that he was a multi-millionaire National Lottery...

Two conmen were jailed for a total of nine years on Thursday 30 January 2014 after conning 48 elderly victims out of tens of thousands of pounds.

A third man was given a suspended sentence and ordered to carry out unpaid work.

The trio from Newark, Nottinghamshire, operated across the country and were arrested in Ripon by North Yorkshire Police after a resident became...

A rare, warm water Kemp’s Ridley turtle has washed up on Woolacombe Beach, North Devon.

The small dead turtle was reported to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) on Tuesday 28 January.

Just 30cm in length, the creature is not the first Kemp’s ridley to be washed up along the UK coastline this winter. According to Dr Peter Richardson, MCS Biodiversity Programme Manager: "Two...