Southern Water has taken responsibility for the catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads that polluted the Sussex coast. Andy Dinsdale from plastic pollution campaign group Strandliners, said it was the worst pollution event he had seen 4/4
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And in Bristol, Dorset and Somerset "Wessex Water failed to operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater network adequately to ensure that it could cope with the flows of sewage and wastewater" 3/4
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here's what South West Water has inflicted on Devon and Cornwall... 2/4
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Andrew Bailey is hardly a firebrand for anything other than steady as she goes fiscal and monetary policies - so when he talks about the damage Brexit has done...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The massive break on the economy, on tax receipts, on staff shortages ... = #brexit For how long can we watch this downward spiral without challenging NF's lot in public about the damage BREXIT has done? Thatcher admirers could even quote her-TINA ! There is no alternative
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.. on bloody brilliant female historians - Julia Boyd, Jung Chang, Sabine Bode, Dava Sobel, Anna Funder, Afua Hirsch, Deborah Cadbury, Charlotte Higgins to name but a few...
Thanks for a great read!

And thinking about the creation of slogans, populism + downright untruths, there aren't many better to read about #brexit than Fintan O'Toole
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www.theguardian.com/books/2018/d...

In 1964 Roland Barthes made a good job of exploring the use of images and words that help create popular conceptions of a country...
barthes-panzani.pdf share.google/O7fehO9X9eR7...