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24 March 2023
Anglers launch legal action over Environment Agency’s failure to curb Yorkshire Water sewage spills
The Government and Environment Agency are facing legal action for failing to stop pollution in the C…
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12 March 2023
Anaerobic Digester At Centre Of Wye Court Case Investigated For Planning Breaches
An anaerobic digester plant due to receive tonnes of additional manure from expanding poultry produc…
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24 February 2023
Public’s ‘right to know’ about water company pollution could be scrapped
A legal right for the public to know what damage privatised water companies are causing to rivers, l…
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20 January 2023
Water Giant Referred to Information Watchdog for Withholding Environmental Information
Severn Trent Water, the UK’s second largest water company, has been referred to the Information Comm…
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17 December 2022
Authorities leave Teifi exposed to repeat major pollution
The anaerobic digestor facility responsible for a major pollution on the Teifi in 2016 is still oper…
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28 November 2022
Natural Resources Wales accept publicly for the first time that poultry industry is damaging river Wye
The Welsh environmental regulator, Natural Resources Wales (NRW), has for the first time publicly ac…
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25 November 2022
Legal Action Against Llynfi Polluter Hindered by Natural Resources Wales
An angling club whose fisheries were devastated by a major pollution has been unable to move forward…
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02 November 2022
Another Herefordshire River Suffers Bankside Damage by Landowner
Natural England has confirmed that they are investigating another potential case of unconsented dama…
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24 October 2022
Fish legal loses Wye case at Court of Appeal after long battle – despite planning “error of law”
Fish Legal has lost one of its cases relating to the increasing numbers of poultry farms in the Rive…
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20 October 2022
Missing monitoring data leaves “Turbocharged” East Midlands Airport de-icer pollution unchecked
The Environment Agency has confirmed that East Midlands Airport is failing to provide key monitoring…
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26 September 2022
Scottish Government briefing bias in favour of bottom trawling exposed
Evidence of bias by Marine Scotland against interest groups calling for the use of less environmenta…
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01 August 2022
Southern Water drought plan for rare chalk stream faces challenge for failure to protect wild salmon
A proposal by utility Southern Water to lift restrictions on the amount of water it takes from the R…
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20 July 2022
Industrial chicken complex application in Tywi catchment thrown out by planners on environmental grounds
Planning permission for a 16,000 strong free range poultry unit at Pentrefelin near Llandeilo has be…
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11 July 2022
Sewage pollution in River Tawe? “Live with it.”
Natural Resources Wales has confirmed that work to stop regular discharges of untreated sewage into…
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06 July 2022
Defra gives thumbs up to North Eastern IFCA’s dodgy maths for bass netting
In February, Fish Legal (FL) discovered that the North-Eastern Inshore Fisheries Conservation Author…
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24 June 2022
Her Majesty’s cheese supplier fined £1.52 million for environmental crimes
The makers of Cathedral City cheese were fined £1.52 million and ordered to pay £272,747 in legal co…
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23 June 2022
Natural Resources Wales conclude that there is no environmental damage on the River Wye
Two years after Fish legal notified Natural Resources Wales (NRW) that environmental damage is being…
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01 June 2022
Questions over water pollution risk from new intensive poultry proposal in Herefordshire
Fish Legal has raised concerns about an application that will increase capacity at a poultry site in…
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01 June 2022
Environment Agency refuse to review problem permit at East Midlands Airport causing chronic pollution
The Environment Agency (EA) has confirmed that it will not be reviewing the environmental permit for…
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24 May 2022
Fish Legal Call For Scottish Parliament Committee To Hold An Inquiry Into The Management Of Scotland’s Inshore Fisheries
Fish Legal, with the support of Scotland’s leading fisheries and wildlife organisations, have reques…
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21 May 2022
Anglers launch legal campaign to help Atlantic salmon on the River Eden
A campaign has been launched to help Atlantic salmon and other fish species migrate to and from thei…
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17 May 2022
What’s the Government’s plan for measuring storm overflow volumes?
Silence in the recent Government Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction Plan consultation on how the vol…
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16 May 2022
£20,000 damages for angling club hit by cyanide pollution in Derbyshire lake
A Derbyshire Angling Club have received £20,000 in an out-of-court settlement with an industrial cle…
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11 May 2022
Angling Club Anger Over Environment Agency Indifference to East Midlands Airport Pollution
For over a decade the Derby Railway Angling Club have been submitting regular reports of pollution o…
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27 April 2022
Fish Legal takes River Wye poultry production pollution threat to the High Court
Fish Legal has issued proceedings in the High Court in Cardiff challenging the decision by Powys Cou…
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04 April 2022
Cardiff High Court throws out NFU challenge to regulation to control agricultural pollution in Welsh rivers
Fish Legal welcomes the judgment in the High Court in Wales to throw out NFU’s legal challenge to ne…
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28 March 2022
Fish Legal to challenge Powys County Council decision to approve poultry expansion in River Wye catchment
Fish Legal has begun a legal challenge after Powys County Council granted planning permission for a…
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01 March 2022
Fish Legal begins legal action against Environment Agency for storm sewage and fish farm pollution on spring-fed Yorkshire river
Fish Legal has sent a judicial review pre-action letter to the Environment Agency for failing to rev…
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07 February 2022
Fish Legal holds up red card for Natural Resources Wales over Wye scandal
Fish legal has written to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to “notify” them that environmental damage i…
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31 January 2022
Fish Legal calls for stiff sentencing of Cathedral City cheddar producer for environmental crimes
Fish Legal, working with Launceston Anglers’ Association (LAA), has been told by the Environment Age…
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06 January 2022
Fish Legal raises concerns over environmental impact of Heathlands Garden Settlement
Fish Legal has objected to the Maidstone Draft Local Plan because of the inappropriate ear-marking o…
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15 December 2021
Natural England back down over Hoveton fish barrier removals should harm occur to bream spawning areas
After determined action by solicitors at Fish Legal, on behalf of the Angling Trust and the Broads A…
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14 December 2021
Fish Legal says act now to stop Government hamstringing judges in environmental cases
Fish Legal is encouraging members to act now to stop the Government hamstringing judges by taking aw…
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22 November 2021
Fish Legal fears an information blackout on storm overflows following announcements of a widespread investigation into water company non-compliance
Fish Legal has written an open letter to the Environment Agency Chief Executive asking for assurance…
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06 October 2021
Environment Agency climb down after Fish Legal pressure against the lowering of standards for sewage discharges
After the threat of legal action from environmental angling organisation Fish legal, the Environment…
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19 January 2023
South-West Water pay £5,800 to anglers in Crediton for polluting river with toxic chemicals
South-West Water Limited has paid £5,800 to compensate a small fly-fishing club whose stretches of t…
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09 December 2022
Anglers successfully sue River Mole polluter and donate £18,000 settlement to restore the river
A company that polluted nearly 5km of the River Mole, the principal tributary of the River Taw, in D…
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08 December 2022
Fish Legal welcomes Defra and North Eastern IFCA climbdown over bass netting
For over a year, Fish Legal has been pressing Defra and North Eastern Inshore Fisheries Conservation…
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