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CoastCraft to inspire next generation of environmental champions to fight virtual coastal erosion

CoastCraft to inspire next generation of environmental champions to fight virtual coastal erosion

Thursday, 02 October 2025

Educational game CoastCraft launched to help schoolchildren aged 9 to 14 learn more about climate change and coastal management...

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Clinton Rogers to headline Somerset Prepared event

Clinton Rogers to headline Somerset Prepared event

Monday, 29 September 2025

Ex-BBC newsman will present the community resilience day which will give workshops on flood prevention and give awards to local heroes who help protec...

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Group fined £71,000 over huge waste piles in Suffolk

Group fined £71,000 over huge waste piles in Suffolk

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Companies dumped thousands of tonnes of waste in countryside as water board 'turned blind eye' ...

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Children add creative touch to Cornwall school's flood defences

Children add creative touch to Cornwall school's flood defences

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Mousehole Primary School pupils decorate culvert's temporary barriers during flood defence construction work....

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£10,000 fine after Lancashire illegal waste operations uncovered

£10,000 fine after Lancashire illegal waste operations uncovered

Thursday, 18 September 2025

Cats and Dust Ltd, its director Cavin Mears, and former director Stephen Bryce prosecuted for operating waste sites without the required environmental...

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Cumbrian rivers recognised in global environmental prize

Cumbrian rivers recognised in global environmental prize

Thursday, 18 September 2025

Cumbrian River Restoration Partnership Programme has narrowly missed out on the prestigious Thiess International Riverprize Awards....

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£75,000 to be confiscated from Lincolnshire waste criminals

£75,000 to be confiscated from Lincolnshire waste criminals

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

5 men convicted of offences in connection with an illegal waste site at Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, have had confiscation orders totalling £74,751....

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Drought expected to continue through autumn despite recent rain

Drought expected to continue through autumn despite recent rain

Sunday, 14 September 2025

Drought is causing significant environmental impacts, with Atlantic salmon, hedgehogs and garden birds struggling...

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Major flood risk management scheme completed in Bewdley

Major flood risk management scheme completed in Bewdley

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Environment Agency completes major flood defence scheme benefitting 50 properties in Bewdley, Worcestershire. ...

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250ha of intertidal habitat created by embankment realignment

250ha of intertidal habitat created by embankment realignment

Thursday, 11 September 2025

The Environment Agency, funding partner Associated British Ports, and contractor JBA Bentleys delivered The Outstrays Managed Realignment Scheme. ...

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River restoration improves habitats in East Anglia

River restoration improves habitats in East Anglia

Thursday, 11 September 2025

The Environment Agency and Waveney, Lower Yare and Lothingland Internal Drainage Board (IDB) have reconnected habitats on Starston Beck in Norfolk....

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Drought permits issued to Yorkshire Water

Drought permits issued to Yorkshire Water

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Drought permits allow Yorkshire Water to conserve water in reservoirs and secure public drinking water supplies....

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Environment Agency minded to grant incinerator permit at Swadlincote

Environment Agency minded to grant incinerator permit at Swadlincote

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

The Environment Agency has launched a consultation into its ‘minded to’ decision to issue a permit for an incinerator at Swadlincote, near Burton-upon...

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Rathlin Energy permit consultation extended

Rathlin Energy permit consultation extended

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

A consultation into the Environment Agency’s draft decision to grant a permit variation to Rathlin Energy UK Ltd in Yorkshire has been extended....

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Skip hire boss ordered to pay back cash after waste crime

Skip hire boss ordered to pay back cash after waste crime

Monday, 08 September 2025

Patricia Hills, from Bootle, has been ordered to pay back £250,000. She was previously jailed for operating MWM Recycling Ltd illegally....

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New Yealm seagrass meadow created from 'castaway' plants   

New Yealm seagrass meadow created from 'castaway' plants   

Thursday, 04 September 2025

The beginnings of a new seagrass meadow in the River Yealm have been planted thanks to volunteers largely from the Environment Agency. ...

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Shingle to be sprayed onto Pevensey Bay for annual top up

Shingle to be sprayed onto Pevensey Bay for annual top up

Thursday, 04 September 2025

Shingle will be sprayed from a specialist vessel onto the shoreline at high tides over several weeks....

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EA prosecutes father and son for assaulting fisheries officers

EA prosecutes father and son for assaulting fisheries officers

Wednesday, 03 September 2025

A father and son who assaulted 2 Environment Agency water bailiffs at a Shropshire fishery have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling more tha...

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MP visits Littleborough Flood Scheme as construction continues

MP visits Littleborough Flood Scheme as construction continues

Monday, 01 September 2025

MP for Rochdale, Paul Waugh, has viewed progress of the scheme during a site visit. Once complete, the scheme will better protect 337 homes and 185 bu...

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Environment Agency highlighting flash flooding in Forest of Dean

Environment Agency highlighting flash flooding in Forest of Dean

Friday, 29 August 2025

Environment Agency is leading efforts to raise awareness of flash flooding in the Forest of Dean area....

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Riley Foods Limited sentenced for illegal water pollution

Riley Foods Limited sentenced for illegal water pollution

Thursday, 28 August 2025

Riley Foods Ltd guilty of causing unlawful discharge in a Burnley watercourse. Investigations revealed blood entering the water, posing risk to aquati...

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Daily bathing water testing expands across Shropshire

Daily bathing water testing expands across Shropshire

Thursday, 28 August 2025

Pilot project tests water quality daily in Shrewsbury and Ludlow. Wild swimmers can access real-time water quality data through app launched last week...

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Devon and Cornwall farmers need to cultivate and sow winter crops

Devon and Cornwall farmers need to cultivate and sow winter crops

Thursday, 28 August 2025

With post-harvest fields vulnerable to heavy rainfall and run-off, farmers are urged to cultivate compacted soil and get winter crops established by 1...

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Telford man fined £1,000 for failing to clear illegal waste site

Telford man fined £1,000 for failing to clear illegal waste site

Tuesday, 26 August 2025

A Telford man has been ordered to pay £1,000 for failing to clear an illegal waste site following a prosecution by the Environment Agency....

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Environment Agency issues Drought Permit to Yorkshire Water

Environment Agency issues Drought Permit to Yorkshire Water

Thursday, 21 August 2025

The Environment Agency has issued a drought permit that will allow Yorkshire Water to reduce how much water is released from the Grimwith Reservoir....

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Whitehaven man sentenced for illegal waste operations

Whitehaven man sentenced for illegal waste operations

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Oliver 'Luke' Kirkbride given suspended prison sentence for the illegal operation of waste sites that led to a major fire. ...

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'Secret Love’ on the Thames Gets Nearly £1800 Court Costs

'Secret Love’ on the Thames Gets Nearly £1800 Court Costs

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Cheekily named boat is one of three more unregistered vessel prosecutions. Heavy costs give stark warning to non-registered boat owners on the river. ...

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Students build otter habitat out of recycled flood defence

Students build otter habitat out of recycled flood defence

Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Kingsley School students in Bideford helped build an otter habitat using recycled timber from local flood defence works at Kenwith Valley reservoir....

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Cornwall man given suspended prison sentence for running illegal waste operation

Cornwall man given suspended prison sentence for running illegal waste operation

Sunday, 17 August 2025

Jake Bell, trading as S&J Recycling, stockpiled waste at the site without a permit...

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Men guilty of waste crime in Norfolk

Men guilty of waste crime in Norfolk

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

Pair dumped waste close to river, farmland and houses...

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