- How London’s rivers got their names: Londonist takes a tongue-in-cheek look at hidden urban etymology
- In memory of urban fly-fishing guide Gary Hyde: Fly Forums regular Danny Gill organises a most excellent friendly charity fishing competition on Sheffield’s River Don…
- … while the Don Catchment Rivers Trust secures £154k from the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership and Barnsley Council for fish passage work in the Dearne Connectivity Project
- Fallons Angler visits the Wandle…
- … and the Wandle Trust launches a new River Rangers programme (part of the HLF-funded Living Wandle Landscape Partnership project) with lots of volunteers getting stuck into clearing lots of Himalayan balsam and floating pennywort (it’s #WandleSeptember soon too)
- 5p each from October 2015: England finally plans to put a price on plastic shopping bags (and not before time, some of us might say)
- Is this Britain’s dirtiest river? Another EA-baffling pollution incident hits Manchester’s poor little River Irk (but visit Salford Friendly Anglers’ Facebook page for a vid of John Tyzack catching what may be the river’s first trout on the fly for 200 years!)
- Urban bonanza: Ben Lupton infiltrates a tough stretch of his local river
- Where’s your nearest Trout in the Town project? Check out the Wild Trout Trust’s latest listings here
(Photo: M@ / Londonist)
