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Six Apprehended After 22,000 Tonnes of Waste Created Oxfordshire 'Mountain'

Six people have been apprehended over the illegal dumping of more than 22,000 tonnes of waste at a site near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

International Business Times UK

United Utilities fined nearly £1m after discharging raw sewage along Lancashire coast

Seaside communities and businesses were affected significantly by the contamination in June 2023

The Guardian - UK

One in 12 golf clubs in England broke water extraction rules in past five years

More than 140 clubs breached licences, with a third caught taking water illegally, analysis shows – but no fines issued

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Drought conditions will continue without ‘sustained rainfall’ in affected areas

The Environment Agency said even a few weeks of wetter weather ‘cannot reverse the impacts of several months of exceptionally dry conditions’.

Evening Standard

It’s been the wettest week since early February – so why are we still in drought and under hosepipe bans?

Despite recent wet conditions, ‘further significant rainfall’ is needed before drought conditions can end, environment bosses warn

The Independent UK

Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England

Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply

The Guardian - UK

‘It smelled like dead people’: the plan to tackle England’s illegal waste problem

Andy Burnham has announced a crackdown, but doubts remain over authorities’ ability to take on organised crime

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Privatisation of water firms ‘difficult to reverse’, Burnham admits

Speaking in the Commons for the first time since he became Prime Minister, Burnham pledged to take ‘stronger public control’ over ‘essentials’, such as water

The Independent UK

In 2024, England turned old fishing nets into a 16-metre footbridge; the 3.5-tonne structure needs smaller foundations and less maintenance than a conventional bridge

Old fishing nets seldom find a second life. But in Kent, England, the nets are being turned into something much more ambitious. The used nets have been transformed to make a 16-metre-long footbridge to carry people over a marina entrance with minimal environmental impact during construction. Media reports from 2024…

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600 million litres of sewage entering river flowing through London each year, shock study finds

Sewer misconnections and faulty drainage infrastructure are causing 240 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of sewage to flow directly into the river annually, research finds

Evening Standard

Picturesque boating lake in Dorset overwhelmed with green slime

‘It stinks and is disgusting,’ disgruntled business owners say as public avoids park in Dorset

The Independent UK

Fly-tipping: here’s what is missing from Andy Burnham’s plan to tackle waste dumpers

UK prime minister Andy Burnham has promised to clean up three of the worst illegal waste dumps in England and sign off new measures to tackle the problem more widely.

The Conversation

Fresh thunderstorm warnings issued for 64 areas amid flooding concerns – full list

The Environment Agency has warned of further flooding as thunderstorms expected to hit

The Independent UK

Five-month clean-up of illegal waste dump near River Cherwell completed

Over five months, teams from Acumen Waste Service removed an estimated 22,704 tonnes of rubbish.

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Taxpayers hit with £6m bill for massive Oxfordshire rubbish dump clean-up

The 150-metre-long trail of waste took more than five months to remove

The Guardian - UK

Homes damaged as storms follow heatwaves in England and Wales

Environment Agency issues 40 flood alerts across Midlands, Yorkshire and south-east of England

Evening Standard

Dozens of homes damaged by flooding as heatwaves make way for thunderstorms

Two yellow warnings for thunderstorms are in place on Thursday and overnight into Friday.

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‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought

Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent

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In the 1970s, Britain imported North American signal crayfish for farms; they escaped, bred in huge numbers and now infest rivers across England, Wales and Scotland, carrying a plague deadly to native crayfish

In the 1970s, British aquaculture businesses imported North American signal crayfish to stock farms, hoping to build a profitable new freshwater fishery. But the plan backfired: the hardy invaders escaped into rivers, multiplied rapidly and spread across England, Wales and Scotland. Today they dominate many waterways and carry crayfish plague,…

Evening Standard

Dead fish wash up at London lake in latest blow to capital's wildlife from heatwaves

Residents spotted the washed up fish carcasses at popular beauty spot Ruislip Lido on Monday

The Independent UK

Flash flood warnings for UK as heavy rain batters drought-hit ground

Further showers are forecast on Friday for most parts of the UK

The Independent UK

UK hit with heavy rain and thunderstorms as Met Office warns of flash flooding

Some areas in the country had the ‘first meaningful rain for a long time” this week

The Guardian - UK

Swimmers warned of toxic algae at newly designated Thames bathing site

People told to keep themselves and their pets out of river at Ham amid anger over Thames Water’s plans to pump treated sewage

The Independent UK

London’s first official bathing area hit by toxic algae outbreak

Swimmers in the Ham and Kingston site on the Thames left with ‘really bad rash and itchy spots’

Evening Standard

Swimmers warned to avoid London's first official Thames bathing spot over toxic algae

The Environmental Agency have advised swimmers to stay out of the water after a potentially toxic bloom of blue-green algae was found

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