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 summer without the treated discharges from the next door sewage plant. When we came it was overflowing, so we had the Storm Overflow coming out here, untreated sewage coming out here. A
Leads are they going to be telling us about. , ~ y. ,. Lets get more on Birmingham City council, europes biggest local authority, effectively filing for bankruptcy. It has issued a section 4 notice, which prevents all but essential spending. Earlier this year, the council began talks with the government after revealing it was struggling with outgoings including equal pay claims and the implementation of a new it system. This is what the deputy head of the council, Sharon Thompson had to say earlier today. As you all now know, the section 151 office of Fiona Greenway has formally issued a section 4 notice to the government, advising that the council is unable to close its budget gap in the year ahead. As a consequence, some reports scheduled for this meeting today have been deferred, or will be deferred, but i want to stress that despite the significant challenges that we face, we will prioritise Core Services that our residents rely on. We can speak now to stuart hoddinott, a Senior Re
The Labour Run Council is struggling to pay off a huge bill for equal pay claims that dates back more than a decade. It has also had major issues with a new it system. Our Midlands Correspondent navteonhal is there. The first thing to say is that the city council here has not stopped functioning, it has a legal duty to provide Certain Services and they will continue, but this is a signal to government ofjust how dire the financial situation is here, and admission that the council here cannot pay its bills. The people i have spoken to around birmingham say they are worried about what the future may hold. But for those who have been watching the saga closely, in some ways today has felt inevitable. The pressure on this citys finances has been rising and rising, and europes biggest local authority is now in big trouble. The news that their council is, in effect, declaring itself bankrupt has left many People Living in birmingham shocked and angry. Oh my god, ive never heard of such a thin
Wednesday we start off with early mist and fog which will turn back, it could linger into the north sea coasts of North East England and scotland. A hot day to come. High 20s widely, up tow 32 or so in the south east, at least the Mid 20s In Scotland and Northern Ireland too, with high Humidity Levels into thursday it will be largely dry and sunny, that should set off thundery showers to northern around western areas, most areas should avoid them. Another hot day to come. 30, maybe in excess of 30 in the south east. Mid to height 20s further north. Whip High Pressure holds on into friday, keeping low pressure out to the atlantic, so another dry day, once we lose the Early Morning mist and fog. Fog. Widespread sunshine again, feeling humid, all the temperature also show mid to high 20s temperature also show mid to high 205 It Temperature also show mid to high 20s it will feel hotter, again we could be looking at 30 or more in the south east, so consecutive days of 30 degrees, this could
Official figures from the office of National Statistics showed regular pay, excluding bonuses, rose by 7. 8 in may tojuly compared with a year earlier matching the pace of inflation over the same period. However, the Unemployment Rate increased to 4. 3 between may and july compared to 4. 2 the month before, and Job Vacancies fell to below a million. Lets hear from our money and work reporter Peter Ruddick who gave us a breakdown of what the figures mean. Lets just run through the two main headlines and what they mean so firstly on wage growth, so as you say, it has finally caught up on inflation in most of the uk, at least, but it is just an average, not everyone will be feeling it. It means it will be following the first time in a year, wage growth. It is just an average, but also it is going to take more than one months figures to reverse the many changes, people in the uk have been experiencing, it is going to take quite a while for this to recover. The second caveat is wage growth