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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Pippa Neill Environment reporter

‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution

A swimmer wearing sunglasses keeps their head above water at Brighton beach
Keeping your head above water: Brighton beach had two sewage alerts issued in August. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

“I’m furious,” says Jo Armstrong, 75, sitting on Brighton beach with her daughter and granddaughter.

Armstrong lives in Lewes, a town 8 miles from Brighton, and usually goes swimming in nearby Seaford in East Sussex every day. But over the past week the water there has been too polluted to swim. “Brighton beach was the only place that stayed clean,” she says.

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