Almost a million hours worth of sewage discharges occurred across coastal constituencies last year, new figures have found.
Torridge and West Devon had the highest total hours of sewage discharges, with 57,494 hours.
The Labour Party analysed data from the Environment Agency (EA) which it says shows 141,777 sewage dumping events across 137 of a total of 139 coastal constituencies in England and Wales in 2022. It is the equivalent of an discharge once every three minutes and 45 seconds, adding up to a combined total of 980,999 hours, equivalent to more than 111 years.
