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Sandra Laville

Sandra Laville is environment correspondent for the Guardian

October 2024

  • A maintenance worker stands in front of a burst water main in London

    Calls for failing English water firms to be taken over using special administration

  • A soft plastics collection point in a Tesco store

    Most soft plastic collected for recycling is burned, campaigners say

September 2024

  • Sewage in the River Thames in Weybridge, Surrey.

    Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’

  • A field of brightly coloured dahlias

    Budding market: hopes of a revival in UK cut-flower production

  • Teddington lock and weir on the River Thames

    Labour in apparent disarray over Thames cleanup plan

  • Gulfstream G650 business jet

    Superyacht and private jet tax could raise £2bn a year, say campaigners

August 2024

  • Sewage floats on the River Thames in Datchet, Berkshire, in April

    UK rivers and beaches have been heaped with pollution for years – when will we talk about restoration?

  • Thames Water was fined £104m by Ofwat.

    Three water firms face record total £168m fine after sewage investigation

July 2024

  • The coastline near the proposed site of a new coalmine in Whitehaven, England.

    Cumbria project will be ‘net zero’, coalmine firm tells high court

  • Water running from a household tap.

    Business live
    South East Water calls for investor cash to stay afloat; environment secretary to meet water bosses – as it happened

  • Pollution and plant debris on the Grand Union Canal at Harefield

    Thames Water fails to complete 108 upgrades to ageing sewage works

  • Sir James Dyson at a launch for a Dyson hair straightener product.

    Business live
    Dyson to cut 1,000 jobs in the UK; chancellor launches national wealth fund –as it happened

  • Rise in sewage pollution from Thames Water’s ageing treatment works

  • Labour must resist housebuilders’ pleas to weaken green standards, experts say

  • Keir Starmer urged to act on water bill rises in England and Wales

  • Environment Agency refuses to reveal directors’ possible conflicts of interest

June 2024

  • Rowers on the Henley Mile

    High levels of E coli found at Henley days before international regatta

  • View of Windermere

    Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal first

  • Kevin Craig (right) pictured with Labour leader Keir Starmer.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK general election: suspended Labour candidate says he regrets betting on Tories to win in his constituency – as it happened

  • Thames river water Ripped paper illustration

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How Tory neglect flooded Britain’s rivers with sewage

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