Special Envoy to Lyme Regis.
Everything is charming, with a retouched postcard perfection. The stream chirps down flowery cottages, winding through the town of Lyme Regis to make its way to the sea, not without spinning the wheel of an old mill along the way. Everything would be really perfect if it weren't for that smell, in places. And this murky color of the wave. A national scourge, river pollution does not spare the pretty seaside resort of Dorset, on the south coast of England.
Looking at the test result, Rob Thomas makes a face. The Lyme Regis retiree is a volunteer with the River Lim Action Group, which aims to restore the river to its former purity. Methodical, this former accountant regularly dips a test tube in the water of the river, near the outlet of a pipe. It then enters all the results into a database.
On this June morning, the verdict is bad. "We are at 6 on the scale...
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