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Sandra Laville

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Sandra Laville is environment correspondent for the Guardian

June 2026

  • A child scooters along a pavement past wooden posts and grass, with residential houses in the background

    England’s poorest areas face deepest cuts to green space under planning law changes, report finds

    Exclusive: New loopholes for developers will exacerbate extreme disparities across country, charity coalition warns
  • A woman and man walk along a path carrying multiple packs of bottled water

    South East Water’s greatest failure was not contacting customers during winter outages, report finds

    Fewer than one in 10 SEW customers satisfied with firm’s handling of supply crisis, which left tens of thousands without water
  • A swift in flight in front of a red-brick building

    Noted swift nesting site destroyed by contractors in peak season

    Campaigners say builders’ demolition of nest site highlights weak protection of wildlife from development

May 2026

  • Ardingly reservoir in West Sussex

    People in Kent and Sussex asked to use water only for essentials after outages

  • A group of people hold a banner reading 'Bring Back Dartmoor's Rainforests' in a moss-covered woodland

    ‘Let these amazing forests come back to life’; push to expand England’s rainforest

  • Bottles of water on wooden pallets

    Hundreds of homes in Kent and Sussex left without water after supply outages

  • A destroyed road at Slapton Sands, South Devon, which was destroyed in February.

    ‘There is no great master plan’: anxiety as UK homes, roads and railways sink into the sea

  • England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn

  • Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid

  • River Thames in London gets first official bathing spot on Friday

  • Farage’s Clacton-on-Sea constituency worst ‘tree desert’ in England, research shows

  • Drought fears in central and southern England as dry April leaves rivers low

  • Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film

  • MPs accuse South East Water leaders of incompetence over repeated outages

April 2026

  • Spectators along the River Thames for the Henley Women's Regatta

    Calls for change to rules after stretch of Thames fails to gain bathing water status

    Campaigners in Henley say insufficient number of bathers to qualify for status is result of poor water quality
  • Battery farmed hens.

    Ammonia pollution hotspots found in areas of UK with most pig and poultry factory farms

    Map reveals most severe concentrations of ammonia emissions, which are dangerous to health and environment
  • A composite image of Guardian environment correspondent Sandra Laville in front of speech bubbles

    Conversations
    ‘Should it all just be renationalised?’ – your water crisis questions answered

    Sandra Laville has been reporting on England’s sewage crisis for years. She answered your questions on the water privatisation scandal.

March 2026

  • A wheelie bin overflowing in England

    Rubbish and recycling in England: what’s changing and why it matters

    Nationwide reforms aim to standardise collections and expand food waste recycling to tackle stagnating rates
  • Picture by Jim Wileman - Dartmoor peat restoration, with the South West Peatland Partnership. Little Kneeset.

    ‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands

    A project on Dartmoor to reprofile the landscape aims to return the springy bog – and carbon store – to its natural condition
  • Sewage floating on the top of a river with geese nearby

    Sewage released into England’s rivers and seas nearly 300,000 times last year

    Campaigners criticise frequent use of storm overflows when parts of the country were in drought for months
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