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
Device and they have also experienced side effects like headaches and feeling sick sometimes, rashes and horrible etching that really affected their daily life. Lawyers for the women in this group in the uk state the implant is caused terrible pain and suffering. Most eventually had to get hysterectomies to get the implant removed and some experience pain for years. The German Company behind the device as it stands by its safety. It will vigorously defend itself in the uk courts, it says, and it is also carried out many trials and a lot of independent research before the device was approved, but it is facing legal action in many different countries. Thank you. We do have more on that story on the bbc news website. We do have more on that story on the bbc news website. The schools minister nick gibb has defended the government after criticism of its approach to carrying out Essential Maintenance on School Buildings in england. More than 100 schools will remain fully or partially closed