The latest phase of a £30m scheme to improve tap water quality in Tyneside and Northumberland is announced.

After the New Year festivities, a small army of cleaners descend to pick up the rubbish.

Cooking fats poured down the drain over the festive period contributes to £15m clear-up costs.

Reading town centre is being cleaned up over the festive period thanks to an extra £20,000 of funding.

A clean-up operation takes place after dozens of firefighters had to tackle three separate blazes in Edinburgh on Friday night.

A new nuclear laboratory is coming up with inventions that will reduce risks and speed up decommissioning work at Sellafield and other nuclear facilities.

A clean-up operation is under way at 50 homes in Warwickshire that were flooded in half an hour and flood warnings across the West Midlands have been downgraded.

A new fleet of street sweeper vehicles carrying warning messages about mess are out in force.

Dutch authorities reveal details of a cleanup of Amsterdam's famous red light district, halving the number of prostitutes' windows.

An international consortium signs a multi-billion pound contract to clean up the Sellafield plant in Cumbria.

It is the end of the road for British Nuclear Fuels, the monolithic government body that for decades was synonymous with the UK nuclear industry. On Monday, an international consortium of private companies take over the running of Sellafield, cleaning up half a Century of nuclear waste.

Clean-up operations are under way on South Uist after thousands of litres of oil contaminate a sea loch.

Council workers in Bath finish a major clean-up of the Roman Great Bath, including draining it of natural thermae spa water.

Algae and sludge are removed from the sides of one of Bath's Roman Baths.

A team volunteers are taking to the towpaths alongside a flotilla of boats to clean up a Milton Keynes canal.

A clean-up begins after severe flooding caused by a "freak" wintry storm wreaked havoc in east Devon.

A road has been closed to allow workers clean up an "unsightly" rail bridge in Shropshire.

Volunteers spend the day clearing 30 tonnes of rubbish from the top of Wales' highest mountain, Snowdon.

Plans for a major clean up of the Rivers Chelmer and Can in Chelmsford in Essex are unveiled.

Engineers complete repairs to a burst water main but the clean-up continues in Leicester.