- Providing local groups with professional advice, confidence and contacts: Paul Gaskell reviews how the Wild Trout Trust helped to kick-start the Wandle’s ‘truly outstanding’ river restoration programme (and how this success inspired the WTT’s full-on Trout in the Town project)
- More Wandle coverage: celebrating 2 years of volunteers monitoring urban diffuse pollution, and hitting international headlines in December’s issue of SCALE Magazine
- Grayling on the Calder: Philippa Hake and Stephen Cheetham go exploring their local urban river
- Chemical runoff from fire in an aromatherapy warehouse kills thousands of trout and other fish in the upper Wey at Alton, a few miles above Farnham…
- … but there’s new life for Telford’s (formerly culverted) Mad Brook (extra link added here)
- … and another new project aims to bring the Welland back to the people of Market Harborough (full report available soon, we hope!)
- Industrial forestry damages rivers too – so river restorationists ‘broadly welcome’ the end of cypermethrin use scheduled for 2017
- Boulders, resin and urban river lurgy: the South East Rivers Trust’s Toby Hull presents another fascinating fish passage step-by-step from south London’s Hogsmill River
- Tribute to a great and generous fly-fisher: North Country Angler Matt Eastham revisits south Yorkshire’s urban streams to pay homage to Gary Hyde
(Photo: Wandle Trust)
