The decision to grant planning permission for what would have been the UK’s first coal mine in 30 years has been quashed by a ...

Plans to build the UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed. Two campaign groups had brought legal ...

Approval for Britain’s first coal mine in 30 years has been quashed by the High Court in a landmark victory for climate ...

Mr Justice Holgate said arguments in favour of supporting the decision to grant planning permission for the site at Whitehaven were ‘unsustainable’.

Mr Justice Holgate said in a ruling on Friday that giving the go-ahead for the development at Whitehaven in Cumbria was “legally flawed”. Climate campaign group Friends of the Earth (FoE ...

Mr Justice Holgate said that giving the go-ahead for the development at Whitehaven in Cumbria was “legally flawed”. Climate campaign group Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on ...