A water company has been fined more than half a million pounds after raw sewage was discharged into a river for 23 hours killing 5,000 fish, the Environment Agency said.
Anglian Water pleaded guilty to a breach of permit and was ordered to pay a fine of £510,000, costs of £50,000 and a victim surcharge of £170 at Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
About six million litres of raw sewage was pumped into the Great Ouse at Brackley, Northamptonshire, during the incident.
