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
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 citys finances has been rising and rising. Europes 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 authoritys 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 long standing
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
Boys, where allied to donald trump, forcibly stop the peaceful transfer of power from one elected president to another. January the 6th, henrique terrio, he be sentenced to 33 years injail, whether or not henrique terrio, he be sentenced to 33 years in jail, whether or not the judge will grant that which or he will be sentenced to 18 or 20 years, well find out in the next couple hours. As you say last week for members of the proud boys were sentenced, anywhere between ten years or 18 years, prosecutors for them as well, somewhere around the 30 year mark. The them as well, somewhere around the 30 year mark 30 year mark. The prosecutors have asked for a 30 year mark. The prosecutors have asked for a very 30 year mark. The prosecutors have asked for a very stiff 30 year mark. The prosecutors have asked for a very stiff sentence 30 year mark. The prosecutors have asked for a very stiff sentence in asked for a very stiff sentence in most cases, some leniency and the fact that there were rel