65 h. ago Bosses of polluting water firms will lose bonuses if they fail to clean up Britain's rivers, watchdog warns

From next month regulator Ofwat plans to use new powers to stop executives of water companies being rewarded despite poor performance on cleaning up pollution.

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3 d. ago Meera Sodha: ‘I’m thrilled to have new ingredients in the kitchen’

Our cook on why she’s changing the way she writes her recipesSee Meera’s kimchi and cheddar okonomiyaki and Thai fried egg salad hereI’m like a giant panda in that 98% of what I eat comes from plants. It’s a long story, but the short version is that I love animals alive and vegetables on my plate.If I think about who I am and how I eat, I am built from Gujarati ingenuity and Lincolnshire produce when it comes to putting vegetables at the centre of the table. While I eat mainly plants, I do leave a little room in my diet for other things that I enjoy – a fish curry shared with my husband, Hugh, an omelette for a quick dinner, or tidying the edges of a hunk of manchego – and three of my cookbooks, Fresh India, East and Dinner, overall reflect that way of eating. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Bill to nationalise polluting water companies blocked by Government

Clive Lewis says his Water Bill would operate a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy but Government points to £200 billion cost.

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4 d. ago MP calls to nationalise water firms that repeatedly pollute rivers and seas

Clive Lewis says his Water Bill would operate a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy for private water companies.

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4 d. ago Running shoe brand Hoka accused of misappropriating Māori culture

Intellectual property experts say company’s Māori name – which means ‘to fly’ – needs to be acknowledged and ‘respected’Popular sportswear company Hoka has been accused of failing to acknowledge the Māori origins of its name by Indigenous intellectual property experts in New Zealand, making it the latest in a string of global brands to be accused of misappropriating Māori culture.The French American firm, which specialises in running shoes, takes its name from the Māori word hoka, meaning “to fly”. Its logo, a bird in flight, mirrors the word’s meaning, as does its tagline “fly, human, fly”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Dying fish, polluted water and a terrible stench: the French firm accused of dumping toxic waste in Colombia’s wetlands

A controversial landfill near Barrancabermeja has polluted protected wetlands, causing harm to people and the environment, claim local campaignersAs a small fishing canoe darts across the still waters of the San Silvestre wetlands in central Colombia, Wilson Díaz leans over and dips his hands overboard. He cups some water and brings a palmful to his face, inhaling deeply. “It smells foul,” he says.Díaz, president of a fishing union in his home town of Barrancabermeja, knows the waters intimately. He has worked in the San Silvestre wetlands his entire life; the water he now says is foul has long been his family’s sustenance. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 'The Thames is in trouble': Sir Steve Redgrave says river needs urgent action on pollution

Retired Olympic rowing champion demands action to end ‘pollution for profit’ by water companies

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1 week ago What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot

Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at riskIf humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true that several existential threats are widely known and widely discussed. But some of the greatest dangers we face appear on almost no one’s radar.How often have you thought about this one: spreading sewage sludge on farmland? I would guess very few would include it in their top civilisational hazards. Despite the best efforts of a handful of us, it trundles on, unknown to most. Surprising as it may seem, new research suggests that it could help call time on us.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago Police hunt for young man portrayed in Netflix drama Toxic Town after footage emerges showing him covered in his own blood and shouting in the street

Connor McIntyre (pictured) was one of 15 children who suffered abnormalities at birth after their mothers were exposed to toxic waste in a scandal that made the town of Corby notorious.

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2 w. ago Man who became internet meme for famous 'fish and rice cake' diet is now set to star in a new E4 dating show

Danny Andrews, who became an internet celebrity after revealing his unusual 'fish and rice cake' diet, is set to become the star of a new E4 dating show.

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2 w. ago Happy Face: this drama about a serial killer’s daughter is so mind

At times, this true-crime drama feels like a meta satire of an industry that milks private pain for entertainment. It is, however, no such thing You know the feeling: you’re watching a shocking docudrama about a toxic waste scandal, or the baseless prosecution of 555 sub-postmasters, or the fraudulent founder of a blood-testing biotech company, and you start thinking – did this all really happen? So you do some digging online. Usually, it turns out there has been a mild massaging of the truth in the name of narrative efficiency: a couple of characters conflated, a timeline slightly rejigged. Only very occasionally (once?) will a case of dramatic licence result in a hysterical media storm, a global debate about the ethics of dramatisation and Netflix being hit with a $170m lawsuit. And yet it is almost unheard of to settle down to watch a series based on real events – or, in the case of Paramount+’s Happy Face (from Thursday 20 March), “inspired by a true life story” – and be confron...

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2 w. ago Sadiq Khan unveils £7m fund in bid to clean up London's rivers

Funding comes as the mayor hosts a roundtable summit with Thames Water and other agencies - but is criticised for failing to include the London Assembly

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2 w. ago Mary Berry says we've all been cooking salmon wrong but her hack changes that

Salmon is a delicious and nutritious fish, and should be part of any diet - but it turns out most people have been cooking salmon wrong, which leaves them with dried-out fillets

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2 w. ago Risks of dementia reduces if you start eating healthy at certain age

Scientists have found that the optimal diet consists of fish, pulses and vegetables.

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2 w. ago Scientists pinpoint the most crucial time in life to eat healthily in order to ward off dementia

Research has long suggested that a diet packed with fish, pulses and veggies could delay the development of the memory-robbing condition by up to 25 per cent.

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3 w. ago Missing teen was tortured and dismembered after meeting sicko on Valentine's Day

Steven Gress and his partner Michelle Brandes have been arrested in connection to the murder of Miranda Corsette - they are accused of killing her and dumping her body

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3 w. ago UK and Welsh governments announce £1m fund to tackle River Wye pollution

The river’s water quality and wildlife has drastically declined after years of pollution from sewage discharges and industrial chicken farming.

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3 w. ago More than a million salmon dumped after ‘unprecedented’ mass mortality at Tasmanian fish farms

Bob Brown Foundation’s drone footage appears to show farm workers pumping live salmon into a tub carrying dead fish and then sealing itGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt least 1 million salmon died at Tasmanian fish farms and were dumped at landfill sites and rendering plants in February in what authorities and the industry described as an “unprecedented” mass death triggered by a bacterium outbreak.The revelation that waste facilities in Tasmania’s south received more than 5,500 tonnes of dead salmon last month – equivalent to about 1.07 million full-grown Atlantic salmon, or 8% of total annual production in the state – followed weeks of reports of fatty chunks of fish washing up on beaches in the Huon Valley and on Bruny Island.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Canadians protest imports of US toxic waste amid Trump tariff war

Move to expand landfill for US hazardous waste stirs disputes between leaders in Quebec and Montreal suburbThe proposed expansion of a Quebec landfill that accepts hazardous waste from the United States has ignited a turf war between the Quebec provincial government and local leaders, who say they oppose putting US trash into a local peat bog.Local leaders are protesting the move – saying the state is capitulating to a US company in the midst of a tariff war between Canada and the United States. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Alarm as census finds just three Indus river dolphins left in India

Freshwater species is facing extinction in the country due to habitat loss, pollution and water diversion

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