Nearly half would never swim off our polluted coasts

ALMOST half of people said they would never go for a dip in the sea during the summer because of the sewage scandal, a poll has found.

- By Steph Spyro

The survey was conducted for the Liberal Democrats.

The party’s environment spokesman Tim Farron said: “This coastline crisis threatens to wreck British summers with people afraid of swimming in the sea due to rampant sewage dumping.

“These polluting firms have been let off the hook at every turn and it is our local environments and people’s summer holidays that are suffering the consequences.”