• Manchester’s urban river restorationist Mike Duddy wins the Wild Trout Trust’s Wild Trout Hero award 2015
• The BBC goes exploring London’s unseen rivers (and how they’re still affecting parking restrictions on the borders of different boroughs!)
• How was #Bagmageddon for you? England’s new plastic bag tax could raise £730 million for good causes over the next 10 years (remember how it’s working in Wales?) despite lots of confusing exemptions
• FORK takes a lead in citizen science on Glasgow’s River Kelvin
• New river cleanup kit for the CATCH crew in Wincanton
• Repairs to fish passes on Taunton’s French and Firepool weirs help to boost salmon parr numbers in Somerset’s River Tone
• The River Restoration Centre blog examines multiple benefits of practical river restoration and public engagement
• Ben Lupton writes up Gary Hyde’s In Mem friendly fishing match…
• … and David Bendle closes out his trout season on the Irwell (but keep reading and watching his YouTube channel for plenty of urban grayling action elsewhere!)

(Photo: Wild Trout Trust)

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