Environment Agency faces questions over works on protected river

Local wildlife trust says work has devastated Herefordshire river but landowner says EA asked him to do it

Environment agency officials were under pressure on Monday to explain exactly what consent they gave to carry out extensive work on the banks of a protected river in England.

Officials from the EA, Natural England and the Forestry Commission moved in last week to stop the work along the River Lugg outside Kingsland, near Leominster in Herefordshire.