Joe Crowley / BBC Kate Pryke is campaigning to prevent new housing being built in a village where sewage facilities are over capacity On the edge of Buckingham in southern England, the quiet and leafy village of Maids Moreton, dotted with thatched cottages, is at the heart of a dilemma. There is a plan –...
BBC Gylly Beach was one of the sites of the protest Hundreds of swimmers, surfers and paddleboarders have taken to the sea in Cornwall and Devon as part of an annual protest against an “ongoing sewage scandal”. The nationwide Paddle Out Protest, hosted by Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), took place across 42 bathing sites across the UK on Saturday, including Gylly Beach in Falmouth, as well...
South West Water bills increased by a third this month immediately after the Environment Agency published data showing that the company had released sewage for more hours than any other water company in England and Wales during 2024. The data shows that a South West Water overflow in Salcombe Regis spilled sewage for very nearly...
Alison Stephenson Local Democracy Reporting Service Rebecca Smith Smells coming from the sewage treatment plant at Marsh Mills have become known as the “Plympton Pong” A Plymouth councillor claims people who live near a sewage treatment works in the city are forced to shut their windows and their children do not play outside. Councillor Kevin...
Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Reuters Sewage spilled illegally into Britain’s largest lake on a record number of days last year, an analysis of water company data by campaigners suggests. The analysis, which the BBC had exclusive access to, used United Utilities operational data to establish when the company was discharging sewage into Windermere when...
Cameron Weldon & Kirk England BBC News, South West BBC One swimmer from Budleigh Salterton said she worries about pollution levels in the sea Water campaigners have described new figures on storm overflow usage as “sickening” after they showed how many times sewage was spilled into the sea and rivers in the South West. In...
Water companies released raw sewage into England’s rivers and seas for a record 3.61 million hours last year, a slight increase on 2023. Although the number of hours increased, figures released by the Environment Agency (EA) showed total spills were down. Some spilling can be legal, but concern has been mounting amongst scientists about the...