A scheme to create one of the biggest new woodlands in Europe at an iconic Scottish loch - and protect water supplies for generations to come - has taken a major step forward.

The Environment Agency and the Norfolk Rivers Trust has worked together on a project along a section of the River Glaven in North Norfolk.

Just weeks before the school holidays began in the Lake District, Blue Green Algae samples exceeded World Health Organisation (WHO) limits for recreational use of Lake Windermere, according to campaigning organisation Save Windermere.

As part of its Get River Positive programme, Anglian Water has announced its latest collaborative partnership with East Mercia Rivers Trust (EMRT), by awarding the trust over half a million pounds for a range of projects across the Welland and Witham catchments.

An ambitious project to create a variety of habitats in which a wide range of trees, plants and animals can thrive is taking shape next to Wessex Water’s Durleigh Reservoir to the west of the town over the coming months.

Tomorrow the Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) 12-day UK road trip in a bespoke double-decker bus to take the sewage debate to election hotspots will complete its journey in the SAS hometown of St. Agnes in Cornwall.

Wild Haweswater, a partnership between the RSPB and landowner United Utilities, near Bampton in the Lake District, has won the annual Ashden Award for Natural Climate Solutions.