Ministers lose appeal against Yorkshire anglers’ river pollution ruling

Appeal court finds in favour of Pickering Fishery Association members who wanted river to be cleaned

A group of anglers trying to restore the ecosystem of a river have seen off a challenge by the environment secretary, Steve Reed, who claimed that cleaning up their waterway was administratively unworkable.

Reed took an appeal against a group of anglers from North Yorkshire, who had won a legal case arguing that the government and the Environment Agency’s plans to clean up the Upper Costa Beck, a former trout stream devastated by sewage pollution and runoff, were so vague they were ineffectual.

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