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BBC News
14-07-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Drone image shows damage of field fire in Wollaston
Images taken by a search and rescue team's drone have shown the damage caused by a field were called to a blaze at a farm in the Shepherds Hill area close to Wollaston, near Wellingborough, at 13.40 BST on were assisted by volunteers from Northamptonshire Search and Rescue (NSAR), which used its drone to capture aerial pictures to help the fire commanders assess the said a pre-flight check had identified an "imminent low-flight event and our pilot delayed launch for 4 mins while the Red Arrows passed close by". Safety warning The blaze damaged standing crops and farm machinery. At its height, there were six fire engines and a water bowser at the followed another field fire at Corby on Thursday. Firefighters used wildfire backpacks and beaters to put it Sunday, there was also a fire at a thatched property in the village of fire service has issued fresh warnings about increased risks during the warm a post on social media it said: "Due to the hot weather we have had, the ground is dry, and fires can spread quickly – so please take care." Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
18-06-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Four seriously injured in crash on Shropshire road
Four people were seriously injured when two cars crashed on a road in collision happened on the A458 at Wollaston just after midnight on Wednesday. Paramedics assessed six people, three from each women and a man from one of the cars were taken to hospital with serious injuries. Firefighters helped to release one of the women from that car, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.A woman in the other car also suffered potentially serious injuries. A teenage boy in that vehicle was not seriously hurt and the driver did not need treatment. The injured people were taken to the Royal Shrewsbury and Royal Stoke University hospitals. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Int'l Business Times
17-06-2025
- Business
- Int'l Business Times
Beyond Greenwashing: RecycleSoft Brings Real-Time Accountability to Carbon Reporting
RecycleSoft Nearly every Fortune 5000 company today has a dedicated leader focused on sustainability. But even with this growing commitment, one major challenge remains: how do businesses accurately measure their environmental impact? Tracking carbon footprints, recycling efforts, and ESG data is notoriously difficult and often unreliable. That's the problem RecycleSoft is here to solve by making environmental data measurable, trustworthy, and actionable. Founded by Graham Wollaston, a technologist-turned-recycling entrepreneur, RecycleSoft offers something deceptively simple: a fully integrated system that finally makes carbon footprint reporting accurate, real-time, and verifiable. Underneath that simplicity lies 25 years of deep software development, built to address one of the most persistent data gaps in corporate sustainability efforts. "Everyone wants accurate numbers they can trust, peer-reviewable, real-time, and globally scalable," says Wollaston. "But there is no real mechanism to produce them. That's what we solve." At the heart of RecycleSoft's offering is ROMS, or the Recycling Operations Management System. ROMS is a geolocated, blockchain-secured data system that tracks recycling and carbon-related activities from origin to final disposition. Whether it's a local worker in São Paulo logging bales of cardboard off a drilling rig or a consolidator moving those bales to a mill, every step is captured and recorded. "Most companies already have most of the data they need," Wollaston explains. "We just connect the dots and provide a complete, verifiable chain of custody for materials, and, by extension, carbon activity." Through its ROMS platform, RecycleSoft empowers organizations to generate live carbon dashboards, showing not just emissions but tangible reduction activity tracked to the pound. That data becomes the basis for RecycleCoin , a non-fungible token that encapsulates the proof of carbon reduction. Each coin encapsulates a thousand metric tons of verified recycling activity, providing a full history of the lifecycle it represents. It offers a transparent and tradeable unit of environmental value. "It's a real asset, backed by blockchain-verified recycling data," says Wollaston. "That means it's not just a tech gimmick. It's a financial instrument with value in both environmental and investment terms." The need for such a solution has never been greater. As ESG regulations tighten and investor scrutiny increases, companies can no longer afford vague or unverifiable carbon claims. Yet, as Wollaston notes, the tools to meet those expectations have been lacking until now. RecycleSoft didn't emerge overnight. It's the result of two decades of experience in the recycling industry and, prior to that, two decades in software development. After moving to the U.S. and swearing off Gantt charts for good, Wollaston found himself managing e-waste operations, only to discover that no real software solutions existed to track recycling processes effectively. "ROMS was born out of necessity," he says. "There was just nothing built for this space." That initial project grew quietly but steadily and now boasts in-house developers across four continents. For years, the ROMS platform was used exclusively in-house within Wollaston's own operations. But as sustainability took center stage in global boardrooms, the software's potential became too big to ignore. By 2023, Wollaston shuttered his recycling businesses and launched RecycleSoft as a standalone company, bringing ROMS and its powerful ecosystem to a broader market. The platform has since evolved beyond electronics recycling to cover the full spectrum of recycling activity, including electricity consumption, material reuse, and full ESG tracking across multiple geographies. And yet, despite the product's maturity, the company itself remains in the early stages of scaling. "We are in the hunter-skinner stage," Wollaston says. "We are small, but we are ready to grow. We have a unique and fully developed software ecosystem, an enthusiastic customer base, and an untapped target market. What we need now is visibility and investment." That investment opportunity is particularly compelling. RecycleSoft's technology is patent-pending, its token is blockchain-backed, and its potential market includes not just recyclers but any global enterprise struggling with carbon accountability. The company has already attracted interest from early clients but is looking for capital to scale both its infrastructure and team. "The goal is to make ROMS an industry-agnostic standard," Wollaston says. "We have already got a fully functional, in-house developed software ecosystem. We just need to expand." That expansion, he emphasizes, is not just about selling software. It's about solving a global problem. As regulations evolve and pressure mounts for verifiable carbon data, RecycleSoft may be one of the few companies able to deliver on that promise today. "In a world where everyone is trying to reduce their footprint, the first step is actually being able to count it," Wollaston says. "We are giving companies the power to do just that, with clarity, credibility, and confidence."
Otago Daily Times
09-06-2025
- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
Wollaston thanks team-mates for victory
Ally Wollaston celebrates victory at the Tour of Britain in Glasgow. PHOTO: SWPIX New Zealand cycling star Ally Wollaston has sprinted her way to overall victory on the final day to win the Tour of Britain. The Suez FDJ professional went into the last stage of the UCI World Tour race around the streets of Glasgow trailing emerging British star Cat Ferguson, from Movistar, by 3sec. Wollaston revelled in the circuit racing, picking up the time bonuses in winning all three of the intermediate sprints in Glasgow then securing the overall honours with a desperate final sprint for third on the stage. It gave the Kiwi rider the vital last four bonus points to secure the overall victory on general classification. "I'm a little bit overwhelmed," Wollaston said. 'I knew it was a lot to pull off today, winning three sprints and having to still get seconds in the final. I knew the race really had to go my way today. 'I'm so, so immensely grateful for my team-mates for making it pan out that way. I really couldn't have done that on my own out there. 'If you looked at every sprint that I did well in today, I was never isolated. I had a team-mate going into the last corner every single time and it made a world of difference. 'This means the world to me. It's my first World Tour victory in GC. 'Often a lot of the times on the track, I race best in omniums when I'm not leading from the front, and I think I found it super-motivating today not having to defend the win. I find it a lot easier on the mind chasing rather than defending." Wollaston has won two world titles on the track as well as silver and bronze medals at the Paris Olympic Games. While the New Zealand star won a World Tour race in Australia in February, this was her first World Tour GC win in a stage race. "It came down to the last sprint, and there was a moment of doubt halfway through that last lap where I thought 'I just cannot do this today', and my team-mates really helped me pull it together and pulled me to the front for the final.'' The final stage was held on an 8.4km city-centre circuit in Glasgow. — APL
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Yahoo
Car swoop probed as police issue picture of man officers want to identify
A car swoop is being probed as police issue a picture of a man officers want to identify. Items were stolen from a vehicle on Gilbanks Road, in Wollaston, Stourbridge. West Midlands Police has issued a picture of a man it wants to trace. READ MORE: Tributes to The Cube victim after 'utterly tragic' death fall READ MORE: The Cube Birmingham tragedy as man falls to his death from luxury city centre complex READ MORE: Major Birmingham loose bull update after 'escape from abattoir' theory READ MORE: Watch M5 trucker roll cigarette with no hands on wheel as police go undercover in HGV No arrests have been made and inquiries are ongoing. An appeal for information was made today Sunday, June 8. In a statement, police said: "We want to speak to this man after items were stolen from a car in Stourbridge. "It happened in Gilbanks Road, Wollaston, at around 5am, on April 22. Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp , click the link to join "We appreciate this isn't the clearest image but we're hoping to receive information to assist our enquiries. "You can contact us by calling 101 and quote 20/216583/25."
