If you go down to the sea today...

You’re in for a big surprise: a 10% chance of getting a gastrointestinal disease. Thirty years ago The Sunday Times campaigned to clean up Britain’s beaches " and succeeded.

 But our seas are still swamped with filth; fish stocks and wildlife are being decimated and ‘dead zones’ are appearing off our coast where nothing can thrive but gut-infecting bacteria

The Sunday Times