Sewage pollution and water bills could increase following Government plans to “diminish” the powers of the water regulator, charities and MPs warn in i newspaper

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sportswear giants Under Armour + Columbia hit by claims of forced labour in factory making their clothes

Systemic abuse allegedly led to a worker's suicide, i newspaper can reveal

US retailer American Eagle also uses the supplier

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Last month, Lucie Heath and I reported that hundreds of unmonitored 'emergency' sewage overflows were routinely dumping waste into important conservation sites across England.

Now, the government is forcing water companies to monitor these overflows ft.com/content/9a1341…

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Revealed: Top secret UK military system is still managed by scandal-hit Fujitsu (EXCL by Richard Holmes 🕵🏻‍♂️ for i newspaper) inews.co.uk/news/secret-mi…

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Listen to James O'Brien tell me he thought I was about to get sued because our reporting about Michelle Donelan was so improbable it felt like 'the planets of awfulness aligning in real time'

From about 1.39 hrs into the show on LBC

'Sewage dumped into Surrey river for over 4,700 hours in 2024.'

Did govt not tell us they had a plan, and that it was working? And that by the way is just one river, then add the River Chess, Test, Misbourne, Kennet, Avon and on and on and on...

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Exc with Richard Vaughan & Lucie Heath: Ministers have halted work on a major recycling scheme initially announced under Theresa May.

The deposit return scheme was announced in 2018, set to launch in 2023, delayed to 2025 and is now delayed until 2028
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The Government's system for warning swimmers about unsafe bacteria levels in bathing waters is based on old weather forecast technology and patchy sample data, a study has found

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Date rape’ drugs used to spike drinks are widely and openly being sold on social media. Some dealers are actively promoting GHB and GBL as date rape drugs that “slows down” messages between the brain and body of a victim. inews.co.uk/news/date-rape…

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🧵 Hundreds of permits that allow water companies to dump sewage into Britain’s rivers have not been updated for decades — with almost 100 permits for active sites not receiving an update since 1989

🔴 Exclusive from Lucie Heath

Southern Water has been 'over pumping' sewage into a rare chalk stream in the South Downs on-and-off for over a decade.

Arun & Rothers Rivers Trust say the watercourse is 'effectively dead' - testing revealed elevated levels of phosphates and nitrates

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Oh deary me, 100% coverage?

Would the minister like to qualify that statement turns out there's at least another 7,000 sewage overflows that we know about which aren't even remotely monitored.

I'm sure the minister didn't intentionally want to mislead.

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Major sewage pollution in rare chalk stream stops extraction of drinking water

Lucie Heath reports trib.al/BB1zCI1

NEW: The secret sewers pumping waste into England's beauty spots.

Together with i newspaper, we obtained data revealing the emergency sewer overflows poisoning protected areas (map in the story).

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