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Angling Trust Tells MPs to Get Tough on Poachers

Once again the Angling Trust took anglers' concerns to the heart of parliament when the Environmental Audit Select Committee invited Mark Lloyd and Martin Salter, along with the RSPCA, RSPB and the National Gamekeepers. Association, to give evidence in the … Continue reading

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Environment Agency dealing with ‘significant’ River Lee sewage spill

Environment Agency officers are dealing with the impact of a sewage discharge that has affected the River Lee in the Luton area and the Luton Hoo Lakes. Officers are working hard to prevent pollution spreading into the River Lee downstream … Continue reading

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Illegal fishing net found at Teddington

This week the Environment Agency were alerted to an illegal fishing Trap that was found at Teddington by a vigilant angler.  Environment Agency officer Carl Rasey The net was found by local angler and Thames Anglers Conservancy member Oliver Lacfi … Continue reading

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South West Water fined for Sewage spill

South West Water has been ordered to pay £39,365 in fines and costs for allowing sewage to escape into the River Dart near Galmpton in South Devon. The pollution occured close to a shellfishery. The case was brought by the … Continue reading

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Shepperton scoops top place for the ‘Best Lock’ on the River Thames

Shepperton Lock has scooped top place for the ‘Best Lock’ on the River Thames, after hundreds of people voted in the Environment Agency’s 2011 Thames Waterways Awards. Steve Newman, lock keeper at Shepperton Lock, said “A big thank you for … Continue reading

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Drought Summit a ‘Wake up Call’ for England’s shrinking rivers

"Water is too cheap, the public are too wasteful and politicians have been too short-sighted" is the message from the Angling Trust in response to the Drought Summit held in London today by Environment Secretary Caroline Spellman.  Martin Salter on … Continue reading

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River Hogsmill gets a clean up to improve habitat

Thames Anglers Conservancy members joined forces with the Environment Agency at the start of a habitat improvement scheme along a stretch the River Hogsmill in Surrey.  The Hogsmill is a tributary of the River Thames rising from a chalk spring … Continue reading

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Fears of British super-drought after record low rainfall in winter

The pond at St Peter's Church in Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, is surrounded by clumps of bulrushes and thick oak trees that give it a timeless English appeal. Coated in a dusting of snow, this small body of waterlooked the epitome of … Continue reading

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Environment benefits through Enforcement Undertakings

  In the first year since civil sanctions have been available to the Environment Agency, the organisation in the East of England has accepted 14 offers to make donations to environmental charities. The offers have been made under Enforcement Undertakings … Continue reading

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Severn Trent Water fined for repeated pollution of fishing lake

Severn Trent Water Ltd has been fined £24,000 after polluting Heapham fishing lake in Gainsborough for the fourth time in seven years. Hundreds of fish died in April 2011 when a blockage in the foul sewer was not cleared for … Continue reading

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