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The MP presented the Jewelled Sword of Offering to the King.

Penny Mordaunt carried the Jewelled Sword of Offering for ‘longer than Liz Truss was Prime Minister’, according to Twitter users.

Does the Conservative Party care about the environment? All main parties broadly define themselves as pro-planet these days, so the description is perhaps hard to qualify. Within the party — as in any e-coli strewn beach — there are pockets of resistance, such as the “Net Zero Scrutiny Group”, a…

Letters: Readers on the privatisation of water and the failure to rein in firms’ dumping of sewage

The former Undertones frontman was searching for a hobby and ended up an environmental campaigner. And he’s a man who can win an argument

I could have sworn we had stormy seas before Brexit and there weren’t long delays – but maybe I’m imagining things

To force action on Britain’s sewage-blighted rivers and beaches, we need to kick up a new great stink, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Government has aggressively pursued sanctions despite its own 2020 report showing they are ineffective at getting people into jobs

Campaigners aiming to clean up waterways lodge complaint after government rejects FoI requests for details why applications failed