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Sewage Happens (Again)

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A BBC investigation has revealed that three major water companies have been illegally spilling sewage on days when it’s not raining. Our correspondents Jonah Fisher and Emma Vardy bring us up to date.

Birmingham City Council has effectively declared bankruptcy. Alex Forsyth joins Adam to explain how their finances have got to this point.

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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by George Dabby with Stephanie Mitcalf and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.8

Hello, on this episode of newscasts,

0:06.6

we're gonna be talking about Birmingham City Council

0:09.3

going bankrupt and whether that's really what happens

0:11.7

and what really will happen next.

0:13.5

And also some new BBC digging on the problem of sewage

0:18.2

ending up in our waterways.

0:20.7

But on a previous episode of newscasts,

0:22.7

we talked about with Chris Mason.

0:24.6

What people will down the rat and parrot pub

0:26.6

will think about the Labour reshuffle

0:28.4

and how they might not be that interested in it.

0:30.5

And I did some very extensive research

0:32.9

on a online mapping website

0:35.6

and found that there were four rat and parrot pubs

0:38.0

but three of them are closed down.

0:39.7

Well, our correspondent in Bath,

0:42.3

which is actually producer Gemma's dad,

0:44.7

has a message to say,

0:45.9

I'm afraid the rat and parrot in Bath

0:47.4

isn't called the rat and parrot.

0:48.9

Maybe it used to be, but it's now called the Westgate.

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