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I THINK it would be fair to say it has been an interesting week, with a new Health Secretary in the shape of my former boss Sajid Javid. I was pleased to hear him talk so positively from the Despatch Box about the ending of restrictions, a message reinforced on Wednesday when I asked Gavin Williamson about the end of self-isolation for school children. It is one of the biggest issues in my postbag at the moment. Distressingly in the Lower Test at Nursling there has been a terrible pollution incident with a large quantity of diesel making its way into the river. It featured on the agenda o...

A spokesperson for the charity said: “Further impacts on aquatic life and migratory fish are inevitable. This is completely unacceptable. “We believe that the fuel pollution has reached our reserve due to historic and ongoing inputs from the industrial estate on adjoining land which, due to heavy rains, has caused an oil interceptor to flood diesel into our reserve.” Booms in place in the contaminated water at Lower Test nature reserve. Photo by: Charlie Bull. Southern Water said last week that contamination had entered the River Test from the nearby industrial estate directly fro...