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The government and regulators have broken the law by being too lenient on water companies that spill sewage, the UK's environment watchdog has found.

The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said sewage releases should only be allowed in exceptional circumstances, such as during unusually heavy rainfall, but that "this has not always been the case".

It acknowledged that regulator Ofwat had now taken steps to change the way it implemented the law. The government and the Environment Agency are carefully "considering the allegations" but failure to accept them could result in legal action.

Campaigners welcomed the findings but called it a "bittersweet moment".

Public anger has increased in recent years over the level of sewage spills which were found to have doubled in 2023.

Police forces in England and Wales could get up to £17.4bn in funding in 2025-26, an increase of £986.9m, or 3.5%, on the previous year.

However, around a third of the rise will be dependent on police and crime commissioners adding £14 to the council tax of an average band D property.

Home Office Minister Diana Johnson said the provisional settlement "strikes the balance between protecting taxpayers and providing funding for police forces", in a written statement., external

But the Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesperson Lisa Smart said the government should be "properly funding the officers our communities need - not passing the buck to local police chiefs to put up people's council tax instead".

Andy Cooke, chief inspector of constabulary, said the current police funding formula was "an anachronism".

"What it results in, because there is such a reliance on council tax now, (is) the richer police forces get richer, the poorer police forces get poorer.

"So those who can't raise as much on council tax, which is usually but not in totality the inner city areas - Cleveland, Merseyside, Manchester, West Midlands - don't have that housing stock that pays big money."

He added that one-year funding settlements made it difficult for police forces to plan ahead.

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