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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Sandra Laville and Steven Morris

Protesters to take to beaches over sewage discharges into English seas

Campaigners march from Fistral Beach, Newquay, as they take part in a National Day of Action on Sewage Pollution in April 2022.
Demonstrations come after the water regulator, Ofwat, this week issued penalties of millions of pounds to many water companies. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Protests against sewage discharges blighting English beaches will take place across the country this weekend to highlight what demonstrators say is the failure of water companies to reduce pollution.

From Falmouth in Cornwall, where bathers, lifeguards and synchronised swimmers are demonstrating, to Whitstable in Kent, where protesters will turn a beach into a crime scene, activists say the problem of sewage discharges by water companies has not improved.

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