on days when it wasn t raining, which is illegal. the practice is known as dry spilling and is banned because it can cause environmental harm. let s go live to our environment correspondentjonah fisher who s 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 england s 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 com
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 city s finances has been rising and rising. europe s 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 authority s revenue budget, the money it spends on recurrent costs like wages, at £750 million, the announcement of this summer but it had up to £760 million still to find to settle the equal pay claims was a huge blow. and that is on top of the botched roll out of a new it system which has set up back and about £100 million. the city council leader who is currently abroad, he says, is part of a l
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 wasn t 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, presidentjoe 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 himself. he showed a lot of remorse, even though, as
need to be investigated . police in both sao paulo and greater manchester are investigating the claims, which anthony has denied. manchester united say they have no comment on the matter at present. elsewhere, further pressure on luis rubiales, the spansih football official, with the national men s team calling his behaviour unacceptable. these were the scenes in barcelona on monday where hundreds of protestors gathered in support of playerjenni hermoso, calling for him to be removed from hisjob. rubiales has recived widespread criticism and calls for his resignation for his behavior during and after spain s recent women s world cup triumph in sydney. now several members of the mens team, including alvaro morata and cesar azpilicueta, have issued a statement on behalf of the mens national side, saying that women s world cup win had been tarnished. translation: we want to express our re . ret and translation: we want to express our regret and solidarity translation: we want
and they won t be the last. what does it mean for council tax payers in the city? and as concerns grow for the financial futures of dozens of other councils, is this more evidence of crumbling britain? we will speak to conservative and labour councillors and an expert on town halls growing financial woes. also tonight, hundreds of women can now take legal action against the makers of a contraceptive coil that women say have left them maimed and in constant pain. we will talk to the lawyer representing 200 patients and a woman who says she was forced to have a hysterectomy to get the coil out of her. and the row between government and big tech which could mean that the message services millions of us rely on could stop working. and the government plans to tighten benefit rules to encourage more disabled people off benefits and into work. we will get a reaction from a charity. and do send us a message on whatsapp. are you in receipt of benefits and keen to work, or an employer