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Just 22 Tories rebelled against the Government by voting for an amendment which sought to place a legal duty on water companies not to pump sewage into Britain's rivers.
A water industry group is calling for legislation and planning controls to protect waterways from climate change and pollution
On Tuesday morning ITV News went down to the River Chess in Buckinghamshire where Thames Water was letting untreated effluent (liquid waste) flow into the chalk stream. Water companies have licenses to put sewage into rivers when treatment works reach capacity — the only other option is to let sewage back up into homes. But the licenses only allow them to do this in emergencies, for example when treatment works are overwhelmed by floods. It did rain heavily on Monday night, hence the discharge, Thames Water told us. But so far this year, the company has run sewage into the river on 96 sepa...
To help Chesham and Amersham residents decide who to vote for in Thursday's by-election, we asked each candidate to sum up what they stand for.
Major flood management plans for Chesham have been delayed after part of the scheme was hampered by difficulties in getting final agreement from the…