After weeks’ of dry weather and some record-breaking temperatures, we’ve all been wishing for rain here on The Island. Finally, the heatwave’s broken and we’ve had some torrential rain.
But, would you believe it, it’s caused a fresh problem – the aged storm-drains can’t cope with the downpour, so our water company has released untreated sewage into our rivers and beach-outlets!
And this is after years’ of predictions of more severe weather becoming the new UK norm as the climate changes…