Sewage spills into England's rivers and seas by water companies more than doubled last year. According to the Environment Agency there were 3.6 million hours of spills compared to 1.75 million ...

Alan Lovell, chairman of the Environment Agency said: “Forty years ago an estimated 1.4 million salmon returned to UK rivers each year. We are now at barely a third of that – a new low and ...

Planning committee member Coun Richard Thomas said Natural England were being “complete – well, I won’t use the word”. “It’s been a navigable river for hundreds of years – we can’t stop anyone going ...