'Polluter must pay': South West Water hit with record £2.1m fine for pollution offences

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'Polluter must pay': South West Water hit with record £2.1m fine for pollution offences

South West Water fined more than £2m for wave of environmental offences across Devon and Cornwall

South West Water (SWW) has been hit with a record £2.1m fine for 13 environmental offences, including a 35-hour raw sewage discharge, across Devon and Cornwall over the past four years. Just days after...

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