What was lurking just a few metres away from the hospitality tent on Friday when Simon Jupp, Rebecca Pow, Minister for Nature, and assembled dignitaries were toasting the new “King’s nature Reserve”?

Are they going to continue to “look the other way”?

Read the full story in Simon Jupp’s facebook post and subsequent comments. – Owl

Simon Jupp on facebook wrote:

How lucky are we to live here? East Devon is a beautiful part of the world, and we should do all we can to protect our natural environment.

It was great to welcome the Minister for Nature, Rebecca Pow MP, to Budleigh Salterton last Friday for a fantastic celebration of Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve being extended into wetlands created by the Lower Ottery Restoration Project (LORP).

The multi-million-pound investment into our local environment through the LORP is already paying dividends, with greater protections for biodiversity and a more resilient ecosystem.

To top it off, the expanded nature reserve is part of the “King’s Series” celebrating the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. He has good taste!

Thank you to Natural England and Clinton Devon Estates for a great celebration, and for their important work in helping to take care of East Devon’s precious environment.

This post received these comments:

Karen Powers

Truly a fantastic achievement. Please Don’t let SWW ruin this nature reserve with their secret raw sewage dumping via the unreported Emergency Overflow (EO) back door. Graphic photos and videos have been released to EA but SWW are already trying to clean away the evidence. Escape have been reporting the Lime Kiln EDM as potentially faulty since November 2023. There is never a spill more than 1-2 minutes. SWW deny any faults and say it’s working as expected. I predict that now the back door (EO) will hopefully be closed the spills will start to be reported via the Lime Kiln EDM? Perhaps SWW wanted to hold back any publicity about poollution at this site before the opening?

Geoff Crawford

Hi Simon, pity SWW were reported to EA this morning for potentially illegally dumping sewage and all sorts of stuff there via an un reporting EO. Exactly why ESCAPE – End Sewage Convoys And Poollution Exmouth are asking you to lobby government to make SWW report on ALL overflows. It’s great that You and Rebecca POW want to protect this environment and nature reserve. Let’s see that action, report on ALL overflows, EOs and CSOs and prove your words by actions. Don’t let it look like you looked the other way.

Fran Swan

Geoff Crawford

Absolutely!

And please Simon Jupp MP, open transparency and let this comment remain!