
Singer and environmentalist Feargal Sharkey has accused the Environment Agency of illegally draining a section of the River Lea, which hosts the oldest fishing club in England and a rare population of brown trout.
The former Undertones frontman, who chairs the Amwell Magna Fishery (AMF), has written to the regulator to threaten legal action if it does not stop abstracting water from a section of the river in Hertfordshire.