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Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
Take care when using creams to treat dry skin conditions as they can easily dry onto clothing, bedding and bandages making them more flammable.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
Use the case studies to help you decide when your goods may (or may not) go beyond insufficient production.
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Find out how to prepare written assessments to collect paper and card with other dry recyclables. Assessments will be required from March 2025 or March 2026, depending where you collect from.
Driest start to spring in 69 years across England.
Many reservoirs in the region are at historic low levels for the time of year
How to reduce the risk of disease from your animal feed storage units.
Yorkshire has become the second region to enter drought status following the driest spring in 132 years.
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