Severn Trent fined more than £2m for ‘reckless’ pollution of River Trent

Huge amounts of raw sewage were discharged into the river between November 2019 and February 2020

Severn Trent has been fined more than 2m for polluting the River Trent near Stoke, with the Environment Agency calling its storm contingency plans woefully inadequate".

Huge amounts of raw sewage were discharged into the river from Strongford wastewater treatment works near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, between November 2019 and February 2020.