Cambridge emerged victorious this year, although it seems not through any athletic prowess necessarily, but rather because several of the Oxford crew spent the night before vomiting due to an E. coli infection, brought about by excessive amounts of what the team described as “poo in the water”. The number of sewage discharges into our waterways and onto our beaches is increasing. Across the whole of Britain our sewage network – some of it dating back to the Victorian era – is struggling to cope... Read this story
