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For the second year running, our 148 monitored bathing beaches in Devon and Cornwall have broken records for water quality standards.
Shingle recycling work at Sussex beach will help reduce the risk of coastal flooding.
Sea defence protects 459 properties in Newhaven and Seaford - second phase of beach recycling underway.
Natural flood defences along the west Norfolk coast have been bolstered as part of their yearly renewal.
8 beaches in Cornwall and a beach in Bournemouth have been designated as bathing waters.
This summer people can take a dip at more bathing beaches than ever before along the English coastline.
Sewage leaked from a manhole at South Sands Beach in 2012 and again during Easter Bank Holiday in 2017.
Natural England is opening a new stretch of the England Coast Path from South Bents to Amble.
The public can do their bit to keep water quality high
The Environment Agency bathing water monitoring teams will be out and about in the South West every week until the end of September, taking nearly 4,000 samples from 194 bathing waters.
Environment Agency contractors start work on 7 March 2016 maintaining the shingle embankment and beach between Snettisham and Hunstanton.
Walkers can enjoy 66 miles of new and improved National Trail with the launch of the first stretch of the England Coast Path in Kent and East Sussex today.
Bob Neill, Olympics Legacy and Growth Minister, visits Weymouth and Portland on Tuesday, 7 August to watch sailing events on the Nothe. This…
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The British Consulate has issued advice to British Nationals holidaying on the Atlantic Coast on the dangers of currents known as “baïnes”.
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