The Labour peer David Lipsey has been found dead after swimming in the River Wye in Wales, police have said. Officers were called to the village of Glasbury on Monday after concerns were raised about the safety of a man who was last seen swimming in the river. Dyfed Powys police said on Thursday the body of the 77-year-old was pulled from the water on Tuesday after a multi-agency search. Lord Lips...

The recent ecological collapse of the River Wye due to pollution from intensive agriculture has been well documented. But the slow-motion repetition of this ecocide on the neighbouring River Severn has largely unfolded out of sight. For years, local authorities have been waving through industrial-scale livestock production units across the catchment of this iconic river. These toxic megafarms prod...

THE "devastated" mum of a man who went missing after falling into a river has issued an urgent plea to find him. Jake Jones entered the River Wye in Gloucestershire on Monday but did not resurface. 1 Jake Jones vanished in the River Wye in Gloucestershire on Monday and did not resurface Police raced to Sedbury, in Chepstow, shortly after 6.35pm before the coastguard was called in. Despite searches...

The wildlife charity WWF-UK shelved a report that warned how intensive chicken production is devastating the River Wye, the Observer can reveal. Since 2018, the charity has received more than £6m in donations from the supermarket chain Tesco, which has faced action from campaigners over the decline of the Wye because many of the intensive poultry farms in the river’s catchment area are in its supp...