Are UK Water Companies “Merchants of Doubt”?
The "Merchants of Doubt" in my title for today refers to a book of that name written by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes. Here's a trailer for the film…
July Sewage Pollution in South West England
There have been a few dry days to begin the month of July, but that has now changed. Here how South West Water’s “WaterFit Live” map looks this afternoon. Note the new format:
On the south coast of Devon there’s an ongoing sewage pollution incident in Plymouth, and others earlier in the day at Dawlish and Budleigh Salterton:
Here is this morning’s WaterFit Live map:
The 2024 General Election in South West England
Here is the Guardian's electoral map of South West England this morning: Having been completely blue yesterday, Cornwall is now divided amongst Labour and the Lib Dems. Following minor boundary…
A Reader Writes re Rural Public Transport
Dear Letters Editor, The residents of Witheridge campaigning for the restoration of their bus service are doing other residents of rural Devon a huge favour by helping focus public attention…
A Reader Writes re the Torridge Strategic Plan
Dear Letters Editor, April has come early to Torridge District Council (TDC) if [the North Devon Gazette] report on the proposed extension of the Tarka railway from Barnstaple to Bideford is correct (December 20, p.5). With…
The Campaign to Save Devon’s Mobile Libraries
I learned about the current campaign to save Devon’s mobile libraries during Sir Geoffrey Cox MP's "village surgery" in the Baxter Hall at Petrockstowe last week. Since then a reader…
A Reader Writes re Devon’s Mobile Libraries
On Monday Lisa, our trusty Nissan LEAF electric vehicle, conveyed me to Shebbear Village Hall for a pre-arranged meeting with my new Member of Parliament, Sir Geoffrey Cox KC: However…
Summer’s in the air, and sewage is in the sea
School summer holidays are starting. I don’t know if there is a causal relationship, but it probably won’t come as a huge surprise to many residents of West Devon that the UK Met Office’s rainfall map of the area looked like this yesterday afternoon:
As luck would have it, I had just set up our shiny new Twitter account so that I could report to the rest of the planet on yesterday’s exciting news from Halwill Junction football pitch.
Twitter insisted that I “follow” several other accounts, and of course South West Water was top of my list! Whereupon Elon Musk‘s latest (single) X algorithm suddenly revealed this to me: