23 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Daniele Levis Pelusi The Environment Agency has confirmed that it is bringing criminal proceedings against Southern Water Services Limited, four former employees and three further individuals, following an Administrative Court judgment on 22 July that upheld the Agency’s power to prosecute for offences connected to its regulatory functions. The four former staff, including former chief executive […]
23 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Luis Tosta The consortium of creditors that has effectively controlled Thames Water since its shareholders wrote down their investment in 2024 has put forward a revised rescue proposal aimed at averting nationalisation by the new Andy Burnham administration. Under the plan, ministers would be offered a golden share in the company, described by the […]
23 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Zoe Richardson Business customers in England and Wales have been forced to escalate a third more complaints about their water retailers than a year earlier, according to the Consumer Council for Water’s 2025-26 Business Customer Complaints reportpublished on 21 July. The number of disputes reaching CCW rose from 1,966 to 2,562 over the […]
23 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Galina Kondratenko Thames Water’s Temporary Use Ban came into force at 00:01 on Thursday 23 July, taking the number of people affected by hosepipe restrictions across England and Wales to about 23 million, according to the Guardian. The ban applies across Thames Water’s entire drinking water supply area, covering roughly 10 million customers […]
21 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock Every commercial fisherman in the UK should be granted a permanent, tradable share of the national catch, according to a new paper from the free-market Adam Smith Institute, which argues that the current system leaves the majority of the fleet dependent on short-term handouts and does little to arrest long-term stock […]
21 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock A team led by the University of Exeter has been awarded £939,434 by Natural England to run one of the most detailed investigations yet in English waters into three of the country’s most vulnerable shark species. The three-year project, which will run from July 2026 to March 2029, will focus on […]
21 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock A new byelaw prohibiting anchoring across the entire Allonby Bay Highly Protected Marine Area (HPMA) will come into force on 30 July, the Marine Management Organisation has confirmed. The measure covers all 28 square kilometres of the site, which sits off the north-west coast of Cumbria in the Irish Sea, and […]
21 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock The Scottish Government has granted consents and marine licences for the Caledonia North and South offshore wind farms in the outer Moray Firth, allowing developer Ocean Winds to progress plans for a two-gigawatt project. The two sites will cover a combined 429 square kilometres and are permitted to install up to […]
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