Thérèse Coffey

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Animal welfare groups lose court challenge over ‘Frankenchickens’
Campaigners say billions of fast-growing birds will be left to suffer as judge rejects claims animal welfare rules are being breached

Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

24, May, 2023 @2:43 PM

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E coli levels in Suffolk river in Thérèse Coffey constituency far above legal limits, data shows
As environment secretary visits water treatment works on Deben, Anglian Water data reveals E coli levels exceed bathing water status

Sandra Laville

28, Apr, 2023 @8:03 AM

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Coffey muddies the waters as Tories wash their hands of sewage scandal | John Crace
Environment secretary urges Britons to embrace the filth as Labour seeks to flush out Conservative failures

John Crace

25, Apr, 2023 @5:37 PM

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Nicola Sturgeon says SNP crisis unexpected, beyond her ‘worst nightmares’, but not her reason for resigning – as it happened
Former Scottish first minister voices frustration at not being able to ‘give my version of events’

Andrew Sparrow

25, Apr, 2023 @5:15 PM

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Brought to tears by the birds’ beautiful warning | Letters
Brief letters: An avian alert | Serge Gainsbourg’s best song | Longer John Silver | Voter ID | Woke Windsor

19, Apr, 2023 @5:08 PM

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Benefit sanctions slow people’s progress into work, says report Coffey suppressed
Government has aggressively pursued sanctions despite its own 2020 report showing they are ineffective at getting people into jobs

Patrick Butler Social policy editor

06, Apr, 2023 @3:45 PM

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Local groups denied access to reasons for refusal of English river bathing areas
Campaigners aiming to clean up waterways lodge complaint after government rejects FoI requests for details why applications failed

Sandra Laville

06, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM

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Thérèse Coffey accused of ‘throwing in the towel’ over sewage scandal
At launch of cleaner water plan, minister says those who say they can end problem are ‘detached from reality’ or dishonest

Helena Horton Environment reporter

04, Apr, 2023 @1:59 PM

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England’s top beaches faced 8,500 hours of sewage dumping last year, study says
Brighton beach among worst-hit, Lib Dem analysis shows, as pressure on environment secretary grows

Helena Horton Environment reporter

03, Apr, 2023 @9:30 PM

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Starmer criticises government’s ‘flimsy’ plan over water pollution in England
Labour leader accuses ministers of turning rivers into ‘open sewers’ after Thérèse Coffey says firms will face tougher penalties

Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill

01, Apr, 2023 @11:30 AM

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Starmer accuses government of ‘turning Britain’s waterways into an open sewer’
Lib Dems call for Thérèse Coffey to resign after raw discharges sent into English rivers 825 times a day last year

Helena Horton, Rowena Mason and Peter Walker

31, Mar, 2023 @6:30 PM

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Reports of rotten pork being sold in UK may lead to tighter control of FSA
Therésè Coffey may bring Food Standards Agency, now overseen by health department, under remit of Defra

Sophie Kevany and Helena Horton

30, Mar, 2023 @4:16 PM

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