The project, run by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, aims to restore part of the River Sherbourne.

Thousands of clean water campaigners from the Midlands will be joining a rally at the weekend.

Work has begun to divert a river back to its original route to help prevent towns from flooding.

The Anglian and Thames river basins have the worst water quality in the UK, according to a study.

The local authority is looking at regulations over the use of Jet Ski-type vehicles on an estuary.

Volunteers have been testing stretches of water in East Sussex and Kent after reduced biodiversity.

Rivers have been polluted and forests destroyed on a shocking scale by illegal gold miners.

The footpaths will remain open during the work but manned temporary barriers will be in place.