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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 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
Not have been so many consequences after that kiss. News coming in that jorge vilda has been fired. So much pressure on lewis row be our lawyers, who has insisted he will not resign despite all that pressure from fifa, from the team, internationally piling up. Of course the team coach had stayed in place, but that news just filtering in that he has been fired in at the aftermath of this. Our correspondent guy hedgecoe is there. We dont know a great deal of detail about the sacking ofjorge vilda, other than the stand and president of the Spanish Football Federation at the moment while Luis Rubiales are suspended by fifa, that he told the coach that he no longer held the post. This is something i think many people had been expecting for a while, especially since the Luis Rubiales scandal blew up a few days ago. He was seen as a very close ally of Luis Rubiales. Jorge vilda also has had quite a tumultuous relationship at times with spains womens Football Team. Around a year ago there was
He gave a defiant speech saying he wasnt going to be resigning, that he hadnt done anything wrong and that kiss was consensual. The pressure seems to have been heaped on jorge pressure seems to have been heaped onjorge vilda. He did issue a subsequent communique in which he said he did condemn the behaviour of the president. Since then there has been a lot of speculation about his future. The federation itself has said that he has been sacked and he will be replaced. I think you can say that this development is not entirely unexpected, given the relationship Thatjorge Vilda had with Luis Rubiales. Relationship that jorge vilda had with Luis Rubiales. Relationship that jorge vilda had with Luis Rubiales. What have you heard from with Luis Rubiales. What have you heard from the with Luis Rubiales. What have you heard from the spanish with Luis Rubiales. What have you heard from the spanish fa with Luis Rubiales. What have you l heard from the spanish fa directly . The spanish fa did issu