Water company fined after sewage spill kills 5,000 fish

A water company has been fined more than £500,000 after a raw sewage discharge killed 5,000 fish in a Northamptonshire river.

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Water company fined after sewage spill kills 5,000 fish

A water company has been fined more than 500,000 after a raw sewage discharge killed 5,000 fish in a Northamptonshire river. Around six million litres of raw sewage the equivalent of more than two...

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