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Pollution alert for swimmers on British beaches

Telegraph: British beaches are getting dirtier, with three times as many failing to reach minimum water quality standards. A total of 53 fell short of European legal standards, up from 17 the year before, while the number with the highest water quality fell from 495 to 443, the Marine Conservation Society's Good Beach Guide reported. It blamed last summer's bad weather for washing pollution into rivers. The results were based on measurements taken between May and September 2007 and ... Read »
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