A polluted stretch of Alders Brook in east London became the center of a bigger environmental argument after volunteers removed more than 200 bags of trash, weeds, branches, and silt from the waterway ...

The River Roding is 40 miles long and a tributary of the Thames At 40 miles (64km) long, the River Roding is London's third largest river. From its source near Stansted airport, it snakes through ...

A UK lawyer and environmental campaigner who spent days helping volunteers clean a neglected river is now facing the possibility of prosecution. Paul Powlesland, founder of the River Roding Trust, led ...

"Nature, thou art my goddess". Paul Powlesland was not far off quoting Shakespeare when he became probably the first juror in history to swear a legal oath on a river. Jurors are either required to ...

Paul Powlesland, the co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, says he considers the River Roding to be sacred When jurors are called to court, they are required to swear on a holy book or make a secular ...

It’s a grey winter’s morning on the outskirts of Ilford, East London, and we are waist-deep in a river of shit. I know this because Powlesland – environmental lawyer and self-appointed ‘guardian’ of ...

Paul Powlesland told he acted illegally after organising volunteers to remove litter, weed and silt from River Roding A river campaigner who organised a cleanup of his local waterway is being ...