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Come on in – the water’s full of sewage
Not many readers will have failed to notice the irony of the front page of last week’s Observer: a masthead proclaiming “Free magazine – The Great British Seaside”, and underneath: “20,000: the major sewage leaks total in past decade”. Then open the …