Fish already found with pieces inside them after disaster close to vital seabird colony as activists say every hour lost matters

The Port of Tyne met with green campaigners for the first time this week, and was now backing a multi-agency clean-up “where safe to do so”, after a billion plastic pellets washed…

The incident has been dubbed Europe’s worst ever nurdle pollution incident. On 19 July tonnes of tiny beads, known as nurdles, entered the River Tyne when a vessel struck a…