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⚠️ Yorkshire’s rivers and waterways polluted for over 430,000 hours in 2024

Yorkshire Water revealed to be in the top five offending companies for sewage discharges

By Brian McHugh

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Yorkshire’s rivers and waterways polluted for over 430,000 hours in 2024
Yorkshire Water revealed to be in the top five offending companies for sewage discharges
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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3.61 million hours of #sewage last year. 💩

And guess what, our #water #bills are going up by 26% on average this year. 😡

What we’re witnessing is the catastrophic failure of Thatcher’s privatisation experiment. 👎🏾

We need public ownership NOW!
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Sewage spilled into England’s waters for more than 3.61m hours last year
Figures from the Environment Agency show a slight reduction in the number of spills from storm overflows, but an increase in their duration.
www.standard.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Conservatives spent £134m on never-used IT systems for failed Rwanda scheme

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Revealed: Conservatives spent £134m on never-used IT systems for failed Rwanda scheme
Home Office official says data protection laws caused the cost of its forced removal programme to increase
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Just 1 teaspoon of neonicotinoids can kill 1.25 BILLION bees.

Yesterday, over 1 million voices told the UK Government: stop allowing banned pesticides in our countryside.

DEFRA, it’s time to end ‘emergency’ use.

Protect pollinators vital to nature's recovery & our food security.
January 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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North West Bylines are just shy of 10K followers. Please help them break through that mark!

Share & follow please. 🙏🏻

—> @nwbylines.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 9:53 AM