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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nina Lloyd

Sharkey says Government to blame for ‘sorry mess’ of sewage on our beaches

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The Government’s failure to control the water industry is to blame for the “sorry mess” of sewage pumped into Britain’s beaches, an environmental campaigner has said.

Feargal Sharkey said three decades of poorly regulated profiteering among water companies and a “vacuum of political oversight” had resulted in a state of “extraordinary chaos”.

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