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Bosses of water firms should face prison for pollution, Environment Agency says

Number of serious incidents in UK highest since 2013, but Northumbrian Water hangs onto four-star rating

Chronicle Live

The Hackney Riviera and London’s wild swimming shame

The River Lea at Hackney Marshes is one of the most polluted in the country, and campaigners warn other spots are just as bad. Hattie Crisell investigates

Evening Standard

Anger as flooded quarry still hasn't been drained despite three tragic deaths

"Drain it off, make it into a facility rather than a death pool and a magnet that it is to children now."

Manchester Evening News

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Conham River Park 'bathing water status' bid won't be backed by council

It says say it is because there is a right to navigation

Bristol Post

Environment Agency head warns climate change poses 'threat to human survival'

Chief executive Sir James Bevan will say the biodiversity crisis poses an existential threat to human survival

Wales Online

Four items of heavy machinery have been spotted in the coastal town for the works

Nottingham Post

Prospective EA chair refuses to divest from firm chosen for government project

Alan Lovell says he sees no conflict of interest in Environment Agency role and having shares in Progressive Energy

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Warning after man arrested on suspicion of poaching trout and illegal fishing net seized in Newbiggin by the Sea

An investigation is ongoing after Environment Agency officers seized an illegal fishing net

Chronicle Live

UK weather: Four-week heatwave with highs of 36C as July 'could be hottest month ever'

Bookmakers have slashed the odds on July being the hottest month ever as the BBC forecasts highs of 31C next week and Environment Agency warns people to 'use water wisely'

Daily Mirror

Weir today, gone tomorrow: work starts to free Cumbrian river

Bowston is the largest river barrier removal planned for the UK this year and will allow fish and other species to move more freely

The Guardian - UK

Environment Agency chief hits out at greenwashing by businesses

‘Deception’ gives false impression firms are addressing climate crisis, says Emma Howard Boyd

The Guardian - UK

'Horror story' of stench that has plagued quiet town

People are said to have been suffering with a repeated "toxic" smell

Liverpool Echo

Village of the flies: Residents living in misery as mystery plague continues

Problem with flies has been going on for five years - and nobody knows what is causing it

Wales Online

Queen could revoke Davidstow cheddar royal warrant over river pollution

Palace says cheesemakers to Queen must keep up with environmental standards or risk removal of coat of arms

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Ofwat extends sewage dumping inquiry to include South West Water

Regulator expands investigation after suggestions water firm was not complying with legal obligations

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Environment Agency faces legal battle over water removal in Norfolk Broads

Tim and Geli Harris to take agency to high court over groundwater removal for farming near protected wetlands

Liverpool Echo

Huge incinerator could take on different type of waste

The Viridor energy-from-waste plant in Runcorn has an annual capacity of 1,100,000 tonnes

Daily Mirror

Cheesemaker behind Cathedral City fined £1.5m for killing fish and stinking out homes

Residents were left feeling unwell as 'eggy and fishy smells' were reported with thousands of trout killed as a result of decisions by Davidstow Creamery, Truro Crown Court heard

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Wales Online

Dairy Crest fined £1.5m for string of 'unacceptable' environmental breaches

The firm, which makes household products including Cathedral City cheese, Clover dairy spread and Flylight, has been taken to court

The Guardian - UK

One of UK’s biggest dairy firms fined £1.5m for polluting Cornwall river

Dairy Crest sentenced for repeatedly breaching environmental permit at Davidstow creamery

The Independent UK

River sewage causes stink in by-election campaign as Lib Dem candidate’s son ‘falls ill after swimming’

Exclusive: Tiverton and Honiton hopeful Richard Foord said 12-year-old son left vomiting after taking dip in polluted River Culm

The Independent UK

Labour accuses Government of ‘siding with the water companies’ over sewage

Defra minister Lord Benyon told peers in the House of Lords the ‘level of storm overflows into our rivers is totally unacceptable’.

The Guardian - UK

Government retracts ‘unlawful’ pollution guidance for England’s farms

Advice that allowed farmers to spread manures in a way that risked polluting waters has been changed by Defra

Daily Mirror

Scores of towns at risk of falling into the sea as climate change erodes coastlines

Many residents fear their homes will be wiped off the map with as many as 200,000 properties at risk of plunging into the sea or swallowed by floodwater by 2050

Chronicle Live

Fire crews control Wallsend blaze for almost 5 hours after shipping container sets alight

The Environment Agency were also made aware of the incident due to the nature of the fire

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