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24 July 2020
Scottish Government taken to court over prawn trawling
Fish Legal was in court on 21 July challenging a decision by the Scottish Government to refuse to sa…
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16 July 2020
Swansea Valley’s ongoing sewage scandal
Members of two Welsh angling clubs were dismayed to find yet another episode of raw sewage spilling…
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30 June 2020
Natural Resources Wales told to take action over River Wye pollution
Fish Legal has put the environmental regulator in Wales on notice that phosphate inputs into the Riv…
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17 June 2020
Fish Legal and River Faughan Anglers call on Northern Ireland Environment Agency to stop pollution of River Faughan
Fish Legal has “notified” the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) on behalf of its member the…
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26 May 2020
Anglers tell Secretary of State: reject Sussex coastal netting byelaw
Fish Legal has asked for the Secretary of State to reject a new netting byelaw drafted by the Sussex…
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17 December 2019
Yorkshire Water pays compensation to Walton Angling Club for catastrophic lake pollution
Yorkshire Water has agreed to pay Walton Angling Club £20,000 in compensation six years after the ut…
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13 September 2019
Iconic chalk stream faces new abstraction threat
Just a year after Southern Water were forced to temper their water abstraction ambitions on the lowe…
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06 June 2019
Fish Legal wins High Court challenge over Kendal sewage outfall
06.06.19 The High Court has ruled that a decision by Cumbria County Council to allow United Utilitie…
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12 June 2018
Council admits error and revokes planning permission for hydroscheme on River Trent
Newark and Sherwood District Council has admitted that it got the law wrong in granting planning per…
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