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Andy Burnham will chair a meeting of the Government’s emergency Cobra committee on Wednesday in response to extreme heat, which has caused widespread wildfires and plunged the country into drought.

The remains of a lost village demolished and flooded over 50 years ago have been resurfaced as England’s back-to-back heatwaves and dry weather continue to affect water levels.

The waters of UK beaches are making hundreds of people sick, according to a marine charity.

Four men have been arrested over "atrocious" large-scale illegal waste dumping, believed to be around 25,000 tonnes, at a site in Wigan.

The former chief executive of Southern Water has been charged with conspiracy to defraud authorities over allegations he was involved in a plan to manipulate water quality tests to avoid millions of pounds in penalties, it can now be reported.

More than two million people will be subject to a hosepipe ban as the lingering effects of recent heat waves persist.

A fly-tipping gang was exposed after one of them failed to notice his own dashcam filming him dumping 750 tonnes of rubbish.

An entire row of 26 terraced houses, which flooded during Storm Babet and led to the death of an elderly resident, should be demolished to prevent a similar tragedy, a review has recommended.

Exclusive testing shared with LBC found repeated signs of serious faecal contamination, with every sample from downstream of an outlet on the River Trent returning higher levels of E.coli than a sample taken from a pub toilet.

Nearly 30 suspected illegal waste "super sites", each containing tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish, have been identified in a new watchlist of dumps in England.

The floodwaters reached the town of Monmouth in South Wales after amber weather warnings were issued by the Met Office—as thousands in Ireland are left without power.

Southern Water has apologized for the spill of so-called ’bio-beads’, which have led environmental groups to warn of a potential local catastrophe.

Millions more people are now subject to a hosepipe ban as Southern Water is the latest company to implement one.

Water bosses who try to hide their illegal sewage spills can now be locked up for a maximum of two years as a law change comes into effect.

Staffing crisis at the Environment Agency, which assists in monitoring 950 sites, results in hearing about incidents later than usual, an insider says.

Public told to stay away from area and Environment Agency call in after spillage in Pleck of toxic chemical

A U.K. golf club and two contractor companies were fined Monday for running an illegal garbage operation that saw approximately 700 truck loads of waste dumped on the course.

The fresh sea air has been swapped for a sulphur-like pong in the coastal town of Fleetwood. Locals claim the 'awful smell' is causing headaches, trouble breathing, itchy skin and even nosebleeds

The oil major also revealed on Thursday that in his first year on the job, chief executive Wael Sawan was paid a total of £7.94 million, a reduction of close to £2 million from his predecessor's pay in 2022

The country's weather is set to change yet again next week with temperatures set to plummet once again on a specific date - just before the official arrival of spring

People living in a Lancashire seaside town have been forced to keep their windows and doors firmly shut for two months in a desperate bid to swerve the stink - but to no avail

The site, near Brynrefail in Gwynedd, Wales, is owned by Lyons Holiday Parks who took it over in summer 2022, which was shortly before the rubbish started appearing