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Her welsh accent was back. her doctor has made a referral to an fnd specialist, but it was refused because she wasn�*t in the right catchment area. you are watching bbc news. stay with us if you can. hello. our spell of rather cool, unsettled and blustery mid—july weather is set to continue through the remainder of the weekend. this was the picture saturday evening just before the sun set in north berwick, east lothian. we�*ve had some big vivid rainbows around, and we could see more of those on sunday with that mix, again, of some sunshine and further heavy and blustery showers. they wo...

Under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, whenever forest land is diverted for non-forest purposes such as residential, commercial, mining and industrial purposes, an equivalent area of non-forest...

Of do x, y or z to try and stop that runoff happening. so it could be slurry spreading, for example. it could be the condition of the soil. and that's where we're trying to build in that longer—term sort of prediction, sort of say, well, so he or she has got time to react. it does have a big impact because if there was massive nutrients in the stream here, it gets diluted a lot by the sea here. but, you know, you could get the beach covered with algal mats of, you know, what we call sort of gut weeds, which is just gets sinky, but it also means it's suppressing life. it gets what we call eut...

Trying to build in that longer—term sort of prediction, sort of say, well, so he or she has got time to react. it does have a big impact because if there was massive nutrients in the stream here, it gets diluted a lot by the sea here. but, you know, you could get the beach covered with algal mats of, you know, what we call sort of gut weeds, which is just gets sinky, but it also means it's suppressing life. it gets what we call eutrophic, it loses oxygen in the water. and that, again, has the impact of the biodiversity within the water itself. steady it from your side. 0k, got it. 0k. this w...

This water sensor is one of a network of sensors that have been deployed in the catchment area. they include soil sensors and rain gauges as well. the idea is that all that information is brought together to try to more accurately predict when and where pollution events and sewage spills are likely to take place. my name is glyn cotton, i'm ceo and one of the co—founders of watr. so, this is one of our watr pro units. in the top, we've got our solar panel and a battery in here. and then in the bottom, we've got our sensors. we've got dissolved oxygen, ph, ammonia. with these units, we actual...