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HeadquartersCoventry
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Ceo Liv Garfield
Revenue1. 694 billion GBP (2018)
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Severn Trent plc is a water company based in the United Kingdom that is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Oxfordshire explosion: Plant had permission for lightning mast

Oxfordshire explosion: Plant had permission for lightning mast
Oct 5,2023 2:11 am

... Severn Trent Green Power refused to confirm whether the 22m (72ft) mast had been installed prior to the incident in Oxfordshire on Monday...

Fire crews tackle Oxfordshire recycling plant blast through night

Fire crews tackle Oxfordshire recycling plant blast through night
Oct 3,2023 3:11 am

... A tank at the Severn Trent Green Power site was struck by lightning on Monday at 19:20 BST, causing the gases within it to ignite and explode...

Water firms face legal action over sewage pollution

Water firms face legal action over sewage pollution
Aug 8,2023 10:40 pm

... Severn Trent is the first in line, with claims against the other firms expected in the coming months...

Shock as car left stranded in Coventry sinkhole

Shock as car left stranded in Coventry sinkhole
Jul 24,2023 10:00 am

... " Officers attended and closed the road so the car could be recovered and Severn Trent could work on the damage, " a spokesman said...

Water companies say sorry over spilling raw sewage

Water companies say sorry over spilling raw sewage
May 18,2023 12:41 am

... The water companies - Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Severn Trent Water, South West Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, United Utilities Water, Wessex Water and Yorkshire Water - said they were ready to invest £10bn to upgrade their sewage infrastructure and also establish 100 new swimming areas...

How Qatar's riches touch millions of UK lives

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... Turn on the tap as a Severn Trent water customer, and your bill adds to its profits...

Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers

Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers
Apr 23,2022 5:10 pm

... Each protest targeted a separate water company: •Edinburgh - Scottish Water •Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water •Belfast - Northern Ireland Water •Scarborough - Yorkshire Water •Bath - Wessex Water •Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water •Worthing - Southern Water •Newquay - South West Water •Abergavenny - Welsh Water •Victoria Embankment Garden, London - Thames Water •Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire - Severn Trent •New Brighton Beach, Wirral - United UtilitiesNic Bury, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Suffolk, is running a project looking at E...

Sewage: Ban water firm bonuses until discharges end, Lib Dems say

Sewage: Ban water firm bonuses until discharges end, Lib Dems say
Apr 18,2022 2:50 pm

... They claimed United Utilities paid out the largest package of bonuses, worth nearly £6m, followed by Severn Trent (£5...

Where are the England set pongiest?

Apr 16,2022 9:15 am

The sweet scent of home can mean many things to many People - But if you are, you are, he conjures up the intoxicating aroma of warm dog food, rotten Eggs , or cannabis, you might be inhabitants of One of the places mentioned below. We hold our noses and make you explore ready, England's pongiest make.

Is your neighborhood - to put it bluntly - stink a bit? Their home city has, especially in the Summer - a certain amount of hum?

Then you are not alone.

When The Wind changes direction, The Residents of several cities and municipalities get a whiff of something specific - be it biscuits or Breweries.

Does your home town niff a bit? "Many of these odors are associated with the Industry ," explains Rossiter, associate professor at the Nottingham Business School, points out that places Like Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Burton upon Trent, were once the home to a "nice, hoppy, malty smell" in connection with their Breweries.

, But in Some places, the touch was far more harmful.

"in the past It was the case that, if you drove up the M1 through north Nottinghamshire, you really could almost taste the sulphurous smell of the old coking works," Mr. Rossiter said. "You could see a yellow Haze . "

The Scent of The British production will continue to linger, Like the British manufacturing sector has shrunk and the environment, have improved regulations, Mr Rossiter says Disappeared the odours associated with industrial processes, But there are a few places where industries and their odors continue to linger.

So, what do the inhabitants do think, these intoxicating aromas? Are regarded you with affection - do you smell The City spirit?

Or Some of the townspeople are right to kick up stink a bit?

Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire Melton is famous for the styling of itself as the capital of the rural food; both pork pies and Stilton Cheese to be in the area.

But it is a different kind of food, penetrates into the nose of The Residents .

Melton Mowbray , presents itself as the rural capital of food "in the Summer there is a beautiful smell of warm dog food," said Sarah Haines, who lives in The City .

The Pet food smell that permeates The Streets on Sunny days, results from the Mars Petcare factory on Mill Street, is the manufacturer of the rural food of a different kind, namely, Pedigree Chum and Whiskas.

"It's just a part of Life here," added Georgie Kemp, Sarah's friend. "You are certainly not smelling, cake and cheese anyway, as you would expect. "

After Social Media , Melton also basks in the very distinctive smells of Life in rural areas - One of the drawbacks of being surrounded by rolling countryside.

"Yes, you can get The Dirt spread in the Summer ," added Mrs Haines. "Basically, there are no nice smells. "

Sarah Haines and Georgie Kemp to say that your home city smells "is a hot dog feed" A local joke that The Town marks the spot where The River Eye of The River Wreake "Eye Wreake" the result.

But , say many of The Residents that the smell offend you, as much as you could expect.

Mars pet Food Factory in Melton Mowbray ", you Can't really say it bothers me," said a woman shopping in The City market.

"We were in France, in the vicinity of a pet Food Factory , and to fill in, smelled a lot worse than us," another.

Mars Petcare said it was aware of the production, occasionally produces "a distinctive smell" and it was to minimize this as much as possible.

Carlisle and Wigton, Cumbria, Carlisle's Biscuit smell is described as "a little unusual" biscuits against rotten Eggs . Biscuits against rotten Eggs .

In the battle of the Cumbrian pongs, the proud city of Carlisle certainly takes the Biscuit .

Carlisle Biscuit a touch of coconut and ginger scents around The City "One of The First conversations I had when I came here was with someone who said, "It smells much better than Wigton,'" said Comedian Markus Stahl, visited Carlisle for his BBC radio series of Mark Steel 's In town.

He claimed that Carlisle residents were so used to the "constant Biscuit cloud," you could actually select each of the cookies baked in time.

"As the First Time I was here, I mentioned the smell of the three People and each of them went, "Yeah, and it's ginger nuts today". It is a beautiful smell. It's just a bit unusual when you covered 15 square miles. "

Comedian Markus Stahl referred to The Scent as a "permanent cookie-cloud" - "It is quite a calming smell," said creative designer Lydia Leith, who lives in The City . "If you are Beautiful cookies, do you get a smell of coconuts. On other days, it is a reddish kind of smell.

"Although it is not very helpful if you are on a diet. "

Down The Road in Wigton, But the inhabitants can not get quite as much luck with the touch of your local Industry .

Lydia Leith's of Carlisle Biscuit says the smell is "comforting", But not helpful if you said on a diet "It can only be described as a sulfur", Sandra Hodson, a councillor who has lived here for 40 Years .

The so-called Wigton pong from a nearby factory that makes food-packaging films.

The Process consists of a series of chemical processes that are known to give off a smell of rotten Eggs .

you may also Like : "only on certain days and usually you can smell it when you are in wet weather, for Some reason," added Mrs Hodson. "It's Like our weather-station. "

However, she added, The City was proud of the factory, owned by Japanese company Futamura.

"It is the glue that binds us All Together ," She Said . "If we ever lost it we would be ravaging. "

Futamura not responded to the BBC request for a comment.

Derby In the Summer of 2018, The Streets of Derby were plagued by a "secret sick stench" While Some smells, there is, Like - Well , a bad smell other smell will disappear in a jiff.

this was the case for the People of Derby, during the long, hot Summer of 2018, when a secret, "reported sick" was a stench in The City .

The smell was described by residents as "Like sick", "sewage" and "poop", and a shop said it was "dangerously running low on air freshener".

"It smells Like manure," says Tom Clarke , of Chellaston,

"It was bad," remembers Mycah Gatt, who lives in The City .

"He smelled Like pure sewage. It was so intense, it made us feel dizzy. It was Like you shoved your head down a toilet. We stayed inside as much as possible. "

Tom Clarke held his nose and had pong with him, Derby Council and Severn Trent both said they don't know what The Cause of the.

Derby city councillor Martin Repton, the stench speculated came from fertilizers from a farm in the Kedleston area.

Mycah Gatt, says The Mystery smell made you dizzy, "We are a small town, the pretty deep-seated, and, in contrast to other cities, we are surrounded by farms," he said. "I can be me smells Like a boy in The Dirt -spread of the time, But not quite as bad.

"Maybe it was blowing the way of The Wind , maybe it was a different type of fertilizer.

"It was terrible, it was disgusting, and the way it enveloped The Streets was quite disturbing. "

Martin Repton said the smell was "disgusting" fortunately, the smell is not wagged back quickly about the Derby and yet.

Nailsea , SomersetIn July 2017, The Residents of the Somerset town of Nailsea began to complain that their city smelled of cannabis.

"Left my bedroom window open Last Night , woke up about three-ish with The Room absolutely stinking of it," complained a resident in The Town of Nailsea People Facebook Page .

Was respectable Nailsea centre of a huge cannabis? "Is it Just Me or does Nailsea stink weed?", another asked on Twitter.

"Yes, I noticed The Other day," someone replied. "I wanted to ask if anyone had composted their cannabis plants!"

Heather Pickstock found Nailsea is "cannabis establishment" was, in fact, the smell of black currant harvest Heather pickstock berries was the Bristol Post journalist, scenting The Source of the smell.

"first of all, I noticed it when I went in Nailsea at lunch and smelled it, to think first, someone was Smoking," She Said .

"It was pretty hot. But then I realized, it was over the entire city, and began to examine it, and saw other People talking about you on Facebook. "

The smell was caused by the currant-harvest for Ribena, What they found was quite surprising.

"It was caused by the currant crop of Thatchers Cider in Sandford for Ribena," She Said . "You do, harvest it every year, But it was the First Time I smelled it. "

Nailsea residents believed that the odour of the black currant crop was the aroma of cannabis Thatcher, said he pressed over 13,000 tons of black currants in its mill In July and August of each year. Be. then at the Ribena factory in Coleford in The Forest of Dean

most-maker added that the smell was a "natural" result of the pressing process.



carlisle, derby, melton mowbray, wigton, nottingham, burton-upon-trent, nailsea

Source of news: bbc.com

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