The Scottish Daily Record reveals today that the firm stepping in after NHS clinical waste crisis fined £500k over their own environmental scandals. Surely, this must be seen as hilarious and ironic, in equal measure!

Tradebe have been lined up after HES were stripped of their NHS contract over stockpiling tonnes of human remains, but have a string of pollution cases in their wake.

Though it says much about the parlous state of this business sector and the efficacy of regulators to take control you really couldn’t make it up, could you?