A High Peak animal feed business was fined £18,000 today for discharging polluting waste into the public sewer and causing damage to a treatment works.

The organisers of Glastonbury Festival, the world’s biggest music festival, have been ordered to pay £31,000 in fines and costs for pollution offences involving human sewage.

Businesses in a County Durham village are being urged to help take care of the environment after a release of oil into the area’s sewers reached Northumbrian Water’s Sacriston sewage treatment works and a local watercourse, the Black Burn.

A major home building company has been fined £100,000 over a pollution incident relating to a housing development in Huddersfield.

 A Skellingthorpe business has been fined £15,300 and ordered to pay more than £9,000 in costs for polluting 3.5km of local watercourse.

In a case brought by the Environment Agency, Molson Coors Brewery (UK) Limited (MCB Ltd) appeared in court on 17 March 2016 for polluting the River Wey and the Lasham Drain (which carries surface water runoff and is a tributary of the River Wey).

In a case brought by the Environment Agency,  Thames Water has been fined £380,000 for polluting a rural stream  at its  Princes Risborough sewage treatment works (STW)site attributed to “lamentable” management failures.

Yorkshire Water Services Ltd has been fined £600,000 after an ageing sewage pipe burst and killed hundreds of fish in a Wakefield lake.

Thames Water has been fined a record-breaking £1 million for polluting the Grand Union Canal - the highest ever fine for a water company in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.

South West Water has been fined £300,000 – its  largest fine ever - after pollution of the Craddock stream in Devon due to a combination of equipment failure and poor management, according to the Environment Agency.