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    <lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:02:47 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Severn Estuary strategy: Still time to have your say]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147918.aspx</link>
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        Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        Over the last 18 months the Environment Agency and its partners have been engaging with the public on future plans for managing tidal flood risk along the Severn Estuary.
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      <title><![CDATA[Family in court for running massive illegal waste operation in the Cornish countryside]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147889.aspx</link>
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        Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        Eight members of an extended family have pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to running a complex series of illegal waste businesses from a former smallholding near St Austell, Cornwall. 
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      <title><![CDATA[Environment Agency review Hemerdon environmental permit applications ]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147864.aspx</link>
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        Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        The Environment Agency has today received two applications for environmental permits at Hemerdon Mine, Devon. 
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      <title><![CDATA[Listening to you: The Exe Estuary Strategy ]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147843.aspx</link>
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        Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        The Environment Agency has received over 150 responses to its recent public consultation on the draft Exe Estuary Strategy. 
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      <title><![CDATA[Water company fined for failing to report problem at sewage works ]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147520.aspx</link>
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        Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        South West Water has been ordered to pay £8,637 in fines and costs for failing to alert the Environment Agency to a serious problem at its Ivybridge sewage treatment works. 
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      <title><![CDATA[Flooding can happen in a Flash – Be prepared!]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147524.aspx</link>
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        Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        The Environment Agency is urging families and businesses in the Sidmouth area to think what they would do in a flash flood and start planning ahead. 
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      <title><![CDATA[Bathing water testing begins in the South West ]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147495.aspx</link>
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        Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        The Environment Agency bathing water monitoring teams will be out and about in the South West taking samples every week between May 1 and the end of September.
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      <title><![CDATA[Two men receive maximum ban for illegal elver fishing]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147338.aspx</link>
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        Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        Two Bridgwater men have both been banned for five years after being caught illegally fishing for elvers on the River Tone in Somerset.
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      <title><![CDATA[Do you want to make a difference to flood risk in the South West? ]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147348.aspx</link>
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        Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        Over five million people are at risk from the devastating effects of flooding in the UK, with thousands of properties at risk in the south west.
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      <title><![CDATA[Water company fined for toxic chemical spill]]>
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      <link>http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/147178.aspx</link>
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        Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT
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        South West Water has been ordered to pay £65,000 in fines and costs for illegally discharging  aluminium chloride into the East Looe River, Cornwall. The case was brought by the Environment Agency.
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