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What's the price of a bottle of water, or a ready meal from the corner shop? One pound? Two ninety-nine? The real cost is probably more than you realise. That's because our addiction to plastic is responsible for one of the worst ecological disasters of the modern age: the build up of plastic in the world's oceans.

The national representative body for angling, the Angling Trust, has this week put its weight behind the legal challenge mounted by Goring Parish Council against South Oxfordshire District Council planners in a judicial review which is seeking to overturn the planning permission recently granted for a hydro-power scheme on Goring Weir.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Had I foregone my participation in the FM fish-in near Ross on Wye last Saturday I could now be reporting the day's events along with a few nice fishy-fotos, but I just had to fish didn't I?

It was this morning, our first proper, sizzling summer morning that I took the horn by the balls and ventured into the Welsh hills to investigate a patch of Ordnance Survey blue.

Furious residents say the ponds and lakes off Rectory Hill are being polluted, with the animals left with devastating injuries. The issue has seen a bright orange gunge appear in the water, which runs into the River Colne. Chris Coase, of Rectory Hill, said his lake has been affected since last March. He said: 'It looks like tomato soup. The colour comes from the amount of iron in the water. But it is what else is in there which is worrying'

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