‘Christmas stink’: UK’s traditional festive swims face rising tide of sewage

Long-established Christmas seaside swimming locations have been flooded with sewage over the last year, prompting concern that swimmers could fall ill. They would not be…

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England’s top beaches faced 8,500 hours of sewage dumping last year, study says

England’s most celebrated beaches faced 8,500 hours of sewage dumping last year, new figures show. Many beaches with blue flag status– an international mark of…

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New Cumbria coalmine ‘like opening a Betamax factory’, says Tim Farron

Ministers giving the green light to Britain’s first coalmine in 30 years is “like celebrating the opening of a Betamax factory”, Cumbrian MP Tim Farron…

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