A block of flats has been illegally releasing wastewater straight into a river for more than 35 years, a water company has ...

The company warned if river levels kept dropping, it might need to bring in hosepipe bans or stop using such streams ...

This equates to more than four Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of sewage and does not include wastewater from showers, ...

Roxanne Bennett, a photography student at Solent University, set off on an extensive trek along the River Itchen for her ...

From its source outside the village of Cheriton in the shadow of the South Downs, the Itchen, which is one of Britain's prettiest and most precious waterways, meanders south for nearly 30 miles ...

Residents say they are "shocked and disgusted" that their waste is being dumped directly into the River Itchen ...

This is the river Itchen, a chalk stream that flows for 40 kilometres through Hampshire in southern England. It is “a globally important river”, says Martin de Retuerto at the Hampshire & Isle ...

Yet a fortnight ago some 2,000 distinguished folk entered that ancient town beside the River Itchen, and stayed there for the better part of two weeks, at the annual congress of the British ...

He said the beds at Itchen Stoke used no chemicals or machinery and described the situation as "horribly unfair". The Environment Agency said it was trying not to burden businesses. It has set new ...

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Brendan Neville, 39, drove his motorbike to the Itchen Bridge - which connects Itchen to Southampton - at around 6am on February 6 before hurdling the railings. Jeffery Nowacki, who was driving ...

Southampton City Council said the issue with the quick top-up payment for the Itchen Bridge became apparent on Wednesday. The authority said the system was currently accepting payments but these ...