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Environment Agency workers to strike for first time over pay

Workers are striking over a dispute over pay. The Environment Agency is responsible for maintaining vital safety structures such as the Thames Barrier and flood defences.

Wales Online

PFAS: you can't smell, see or taste these chemicals, but they are everywhere – and they're highly toxic to humans

Humans perceive risk based largely on what we can see, smell and taste. Those senses serve us well when there are perceptible dangers to our health and the environment.

The Conversation

Swimmers warned to avoid Kent coast after sewage spills following heavy rain

Water companies have been criticised for sewage pollution and discharging into Britain’s waters

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Environment Agency 'monitoring rising river levels in south Manchester'

Currently, no flood warnings or alerts are in force in Greater Manchester

Manchester Evening News

Nottinghamshire set for £19m benefit when country's biggest fish pass opens next year

The huge project at the Holme Sluices barrier in Colwick, for which the Environmental Agency has allocated £9.7m of funds, will be the largest fish pass in the country when all works are complete in August 2023.

Nottingham Post

Flood warnings in place for 65 UK areas as cold snap ends and the snow finally melts

The sudden thaw is set to cause havoc across the country as the Environment Agency has put out 12 flood warnings and 42 flood alerts for the nation

Daily Mirror

Strike calendar - all walkouts planned until the end of December

All the dates of strike action and stoppages across the NHS, trains, buses and Royal Mail

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NHS, DWP, post and train strike dates from now until February

DVSA and other staff will also walk out on dates in the coming weeks

Liverpool Echo

Industrial action expected across the UK: strike dates from now until February

After industrial action by nurses and railway workers in recent days, here is a list of some of the strikes coming up between now and February.

The Independent UK

Every strike date planned for the rest of the year including nurses, posties and rail workers

Hundreds of thousands of workers are either currently on strike or due to take action in December and beyond

Wales Online

Environment Agency objects to Bedminster Green flats on flooding grounds

Part of the project is to uncover the River Malago, but then it might flood

Bristol Post

Offer from nurses to 'pause' Christmas strikes rebuffed by Downing Street

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly says independent review process will determine pay increases

Wales Online

Environment Agency to boost natural flood management after pilots

Agency aims to double the number of schemes it supports after success of £15m pilot projects

The Guardian - UK

Newcastle to Carlisle rail line to reopen months after dramatic train derailment

Network Rail say 80 metres of damage track was replaced with trains unable to operate on the line while the essential work was carried out

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Water company fines in England to be used for environmental improvements

Minister confirms pollution penalties will be ringfenced for environment rather than going to Treasury

The Independent UK

Peers question Environment Agency on ‘leaked guidance on reducing sewage checks’

A House of Lords Committee has written to the agency’s chief executive Sir James Bevan asking about a reported change in guidance.

The Guardian - UK

Water companies dumping sewage during dry weather, SAS report finds

Report exposes scale of human waste discharges into UK waters, including potentially illegal ‘dry spills’

Daily Mirror

All the big UK strike dates from trains to NHS as winter of discontent hits

Nurses, civil servants, postal workers and charity staff are among those downing tools in a bitter winter of discontent as Rishi Sunak warns of 'challenging' months ahead

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Birmingham Post

Half-year profits more than double at United Utilities

The surge in profits was mainly as a result of a £255m fall in reported net finance expense

Liverpool Echo

Undercover sting prevents huge Liverpool criminal dumping operation

Thousands of tonnes of waste were set to be illegally dumped at Liverpool site

Chronicle Live

Flood alerts issued across Newcastle, Durham and Northumberland following heavy rain

Flood warnings across the North East continue to be in place following a day of torrential rain and Met Office warns more wet weather is yet to come

The Independent UK

Flooding, transport disruption and power cuts hits north east as rain continues

Forecasters have issued an amber rain warning for an area of north east Scotland stretching from just north of Dundee up past Aberdeen until 9pm.

Manchester Evening News

Met Office extends yellow weather warning for Greater Manchester as flood alerts in place

Heavy rain is forecast for parts of our region until tomorrow morning

Daily Mirror

UK flooding: More than 140 places at risk of going underwater - see full list

The Environment Agency and Scottish Environment Protection Agency have issued a series of flood warnings and alerts across England and Scotland alongside Met Office rain warnings

Manchester Evening News

Two flood alerts issued for Greater Manchester as torrential rain forecast

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for our region today

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