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On days when it wasnt raining, which is illegal. The practice is known as dry spilling and is banned because it can cause environmental harm. Lets go live to our environment Correspondentjonah Fisher whos at Langstone Harbour in hampshire. Thanks. Last year, ourWater Companies in england released raw sewage into our seas and rivers for 1. 75 million hours. Sewage was discharged on average 825 times every day. Breaking that down still further, that means there was a new sewage discharge, roughly speaking, every two minutes. Rural west sussex, and one of southern englands celebrated chalk streams. So here we are, welcome to the river lavant or as we locally call it, the river lav. The river lav. The lav, just full of effluent. Rob, a retired businessman, is notjoking. There would be no river lavant in the su ....
The Labour Run Council is still struggling to pay off a huge equal pay claim that dates back more than a decade ago. It has also had major issues with a new it system. Our Midlands Correspondent navteonhal is there. The pressure on the citys finances has been rising and rising. Europes biggest Local Authority is now in biggest Local Authority is now in big trouble. Its problems began more than a decade ago, when a Landmark Case was brought against the council, which led to it having to pay out more than £1 billion so far in equal pay claims to mostly female staff. But with the authoritys revenue budget, the money it spends on recurrent costs like wages, at £750 million, the announcement of this s ....
But enrique tarrio, although he was the last of the proud boys to be sentenced for his role in the violent events of january six, 2021, he was the leader of that group, and thejudge had made it clear that even though he wasnt in washington on the day, that fateful day, he did orchestrate, organise and take credit for what happened. Many viewers will remember, of course, the violent scenes when people died. Many people were injured during the attempts by the proud boys and other right wing groups who supported donald trump to stop the peaceful and constitutional handover of power from one elected president to another. Of course, President Joe Biden won that election of 2020, even though that was denied and they still denied by many supporters of donald trump. Tarrio was in the courtroom, sat in a head to toe in an orange prison, prison issued jumpsuit. As he listened to his lawyers try to plea for some leniency. He stood up hi ....
To wake up to. The sunrise will be coming up in the next 20 minutes. We are here for a serious reason. Not just to enjoy what promises to be a lovely day. We are discussing a topic which matters an awful lot to you at home. Water quality. The amount of sewage in our water. This morning we will hear from the Water Companies. We hearfrom the Environment Secretary, Therese Coffey. We will hear from campaigners. And we would love to hearfrom campaigners. And we would love to hear from you as well. We will let you know how to get in touch throughout breakfast. Because we have a big bbc investigation today, it has found that what looks like the Water Companies illegally discharging raw Sewage Hund ....