The Latest Breaking News from Wye

Once voted the UK’s favourite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary – 150 miles through an officially recognised “national landscape”. But this idyllic picture is changing, as the river is gradually choked by waste from industrial chicken farming.

The river’s water quality and wildlife has drastically declined after years of pollution from sewage discharges and industrial chicken farming.

Agricultural pollution in rivers has led to a halt on housing in areas along the border between England and Wales.

Faced with a dearth of data on the impact of local mega farms, volunteers have shown sewage pollution has soared