Blackpool beachgoers warned after sewage and pollution alerts issued

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The Environment Agency has issued warnings for three areas in Blackpool

Swimmers are being urged to avoid entering the sea in Blackpool due to pollution after sewage was discharged on beaches.

Environmental campaign group Surfers Against Sewage has also collected data that suggests there have been storm sewage discharges within the last 48 hours in six locations across Lancashire and Cumbria.The data suggests that St Annes, St Annes North, Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Lancashire, as well as Walney Biggar Bank, Walney Sandy Gap and Walney West Shore in Cumbria have all had storm sewage discharged from a sewer overflow within the past 48 hours.

Not long after, a beach-goer spotted a tide line of faeces that was "at least a mile long". Again United Utilities said: "We’d like it making clear that this is not human excrement and hasn’t come from our operations."

 

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