UK water companies offer apology and £10bn investment for sewage spills

Under-fire bosses announce unprecedented plan' to reduce last year's 300,000 incidents of sewage pollution

Water companies have apologised for repeated sewage spills and pledged to invest 10bn this decade in an attempt to quell public anger over pollution in seas and rivers.

The companies will triple their existing investment plans to plough funds into the biggest modernisation of sewers since the Victorian era" to reduce spills of overflowing sewage into England's waterways.