Judge fines Thames Water £2m over river pollution

Utilities firm breached environmental regulations over raw sewage flowing into a brook in the CotswoldsThames Water has been handed a £2m fine for a “reckless failure” which led to the polluting of a tributary of the Thames with raw sewage.The £2bn-turnover utilities firm admitted breaching environmental regulations in relation to untreated sewage flowing into a brook near Milton-under-Wychwood, near Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds, in August 2015. Continue reading...