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Yorkshire Water awarded lowest environment rating by Environment Agency
Read more: Yorkshire Water awarded lowest environment rating by Environment AgencyYorkshire Water has been downgraded from a two star rating to a one star rating by the Environment Agency today, now classifying the company as a ‘poor performing company.’ The Environment Agency noted that Yorkshire Water had reported ‘335 pollution incidents including 13 classed as serious, 82% of incidents were self-reported.’ Yorkshire Water was rated…
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Over 10,000 children in Yorkshire hospitalised owing to toxic air pollution
Read more: Over 10,000 children in Yorkshire hospitalised owing to toxic air pollutionNew Freedom of Information data obtained by Mums for Lungs has found that over 200,000 children are taken to hospital with breathing difficulties in a survey of 11 major English cities. The youngest children are most affected. Over 120,000 babies and toddlers aged up to 3 accounting for over half (57%) of those admitted to…
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Review of ‘The Last Witness: One Man’s Fight for the Truth and the Conspiracy to Silence Him’ by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor
Read more: Review of ‘The Last Witness: One Man’s Fight for the Truth and the Conspiracy to Silence Him’ by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor‘The Last Witness’ is a shocking account of Douglas Gowan’s struggle from the 1960s on to draw attention to widespread pollution of toxic chemicals in Wales. These chemicals were dumped by the giant chemical company Monsanto and contained dangerously high levels of PCBs. This book follows the initial podcast and the BBC documentary, ‘Buried’, as…
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Review of ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson
Read more: Review of ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel CarsonI must begin by making a whispered confession- this is the first time that I have read ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson. Of course, I have previously been aware of its revolutionary impact, ground-breaking work and awakening of the public, but it always seemed to be a book to be read at another time. Here,…
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Yorkshire Water’s CEO permanently ‘unavailable’ for Ripon City Council’s accountability meeting
Read more: Yorkshire Water’s CEO permanently ‘unavailable’ for Ripon City Council’s accountability meetingDespite no future meeting date being set, Yorkshire Water’s CEO states she cannot attend meeting, owing to her ‘availability’. Ripon City Council recently invited the CEO of Yorkshire Water to a council meeting following levels of pollution in local rivers. The invitation, unanimously agreed on by councillors present, read, ‘This council calls upon Yorkshire Water…
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Ripon City Council challenges Yorkshire Water’s CEO over river pollution
Read more: Ripon City Council challenges Yorkshire Water’s CEO over river pollutionOn Monday 7th September 2026, Ripon City Council will propose a motion to call upon Yorkshire Water to cease the practice of discharging sewage into local rivers. If passed, the CEO of Yorkshire Water, Nicola Shaw, will be invited to a future meeting to explain why this has been the current practice and to outline…
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Why I am protesting against an intensive chicken factory
Read more: Why I am protesting against an intensive chicken factoryAlmost 30 people gathered this morning in the quiet, rural village of Melmerby, Ripon, to protest against the planned development of an intensive chicken factory, which will house 2.7 million chickens annually. This time, instead of reporting on a protest or a campaign, I found myself leading and organising the protest. Amid amusing chicken-related puns…
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Back to Bentham: What next for the people of Bentham still waiting for answers?
Read more: Back to Bentham: What next for the people of Bentham still waiting for answers?Almost four months ago, ITV released their documentary on high PFAS levels in the blood of some Bentham residents. Bentham, once dubbed ‘the most PFAS polluted town in the UK, has been in the spotlight for several years now, as investigations revealed incredibly high levels of PFAS chemicals in the groundwater of their wastewater lagoons.…
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New analysis suggests up to 90% of untreated sewage discharges could be illegal
Read more: New analysis suggests up to 90% of untreated sewage discharges could be illegalA major new analysis by sewage pollution expert Peter Hammond has found that between 80% and 90% of untreated sewage discharge across Britain is non-compliant with the Environment Agency’s own “heavy rainfall” methodology. The report, published by Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (WASP), analysed 482 storm overflows serving the equivalent of 39.3 million people across England, Scotland…
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Dangerously high levels of pollution found in ‘Robin Hood’ river
Read more: Dangerously high levels of pollution found in ‘Robin Hood’ riverThe Aysgarth waterfalls in the River Ure, Yorkshire, made famous in Kevin Costner’s ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ film, are now sadly becoming infamous owing to consistently high levels of pollution. Dangerously high levels of the bacterium which causes Legionnaire’s disease were found at Hawes- deep in the Yorkshire Dales- recently, when a comparison study…
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