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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 su ....
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 wasnt 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, President Joe 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 hi ....
To wake up to. The sunrise will be coming up in the next 20 minutes. We are here for a serious reason. Not just to enjoy what promises to be a lovely day. We are discussing a topic which matters an awful lot to you at home. Water quality. The amount of sewage in our water. This morning we will hear from the Water Companies. We hearfrom the Environment Secretary, Therese Coffey. We will hear from campaigners. And we would love to hearfrom campaigners. And we would love to hear from you as well. We will let you know how to get in touch throughout breakfast. Because we have a big bbc investigation today, it has found that what looks like the Water Companies illegally discharging raw Sewage Hund ....
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 bi ....