Dairy farmer from Bradbourne near Ashford ordered to pay £1,500 plus £5,516 costs, after being being found guilty of allowing slurry to pollute a watercourse

A public consultation will be conducted on the future of the coarse fishing close season on rivers in England. The consultation is open for 8 weeks, starting on 14 January 2019 and ending on 11 March 2019.

Watercourse affected by liquid silage and slurry

Around 360,000 salmon and 20,000 sea trout have been released into tributaries of the River Tyne this year as the centre celebrated its 40th anniversary.

The Environment Agency has served a ‘notice of liability’ for a pollution incident that killed at least 100,000 fish in Lincolnshire.