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Last updated: 13 September 2026.

A closeup of the chalk stream River Test.

Photo: The River Test near Mottisfont, Hampshire.

Our website has been bringing you the latest UK river headlines since 1999. If you use RSS (a way of automatically being notified when websites you follow are updated), why not subscribe to our river news feed? Feel free to serve news on your own website using our feed, but please would you be kind enough to make a link back to our website if you do so (it helps other people to discover us too).

The latest news items start on our home page and gradually move to the news archive pages. We have older news stories from 2026 and there are earlier stories going all the way back to 1995 further down this page.

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News archive

Our news archive contains river-related stories from the UK press dating all the way back to 1995. This amazing back-catalogue of news offers a fascinating insight into the progress we've made—and not made—over the last three decades. Did you know, for example, just how many times water companies have been fined over the years for polluting rivers... how often the Environment Agency has spun the news on water quality... how long ago people first started championing inland bathing waters in Britain... how many times people have embarked on epic swims to highlight pollution... or that the Institution of Civil Engineers was calling for greater recycling of sewage for use as drinking water way back in 2006? Older campaigners might be forgiven for developing a certain, cynical sense of déjà-vue; newer ones would be well-advised to browse the archives to make sure the progress they think they're making is really what it seems.

Many of the direct links in our older news pages are now broken (BBC, Guardian, and a few others still work), but you can almost always still find an original story simply by copying the URL (web address) of a broken page into the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Please contact us if you need help tracking something down.

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