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Sandra Laville

Sandra Laville is environment correspondent for the Guardian

July 2024

  • Water running from a household tap.

    Business live
    South East Water calls for investor cash to stay afloat; environment secretary to meet water bosses – as it happened

  • Pollution and plant debris on the Grand Union Canal at Harefield

    Thames Water fails to complete 108 upgrades to ageing sewage works

  • Sir James Dyson at a launch for a Dyson hair straightener product.

    Business live
    Dyson to cut 1,000 jobs in the UK; chancellor launches national wealth fund –as it happened

  • Drone view of treatment works at Mogden, showing 20 circular tanks, each with a large arm that scrapes around the tank

    Rise in sewage pollution from Thames Water’s ageing treatment works

  • Labour must resist housebuilders’ pleas to weaken green standards, experts say

  • Keir Starmer urged to act on water bill rises in England and Wales

  • Environment Agency refuses to reveal directors’ possible conflicts of interest

June 2024

  • Rowers on the Henley Mile

    High levels of E coli found at Henley days before international regatta

  • View of Windermere

    Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal first

  • Kevin Craig (right) pictured with Labour leader Keir Starmer.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK general election: suspended Labour candidate says he regrets betting on Tories to win in his constituency – as it happened

  • Thames river water Ripped paper illustration

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How Tory neglect flooded Britain’s rivers with sewage

  • Citizen testing finds 75% of rivers in Britain in poor ecological health

  • Reality check
    Do Reform UK’s election claims on tax, immigration and environment add up?

  • Protect Windermere from sewage, campaigners urge UK party leaders

  • Council asks for permanent injunction to stop protests outside UK oil terminal

May 2024

  • A 'Bathing is not advised' sign near the bathing area of the River Wharfe in Ilkley on July 11, 2023

    Bids for bathing water status in England paused in blow for river cleanups

    Campaigners suspect block on new applications for at least two years was imposed to limit burden on water firms
  • Blue barriers at a Thames Water repair works site

    Ofwat considers cutting sewage fines for financially struggling water firms

    Regulator understood to be looking at ‘recovery regime’ for Thames Water and others in sector
    • Reducing sewage in rivers and seas is public health priority, says Chris Whitty

    • ‘Someone is going to die’: MPs warned of E coli risk to swimmers in English waters

    • Solicitor general to appeal over case of climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

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