Volunteers begin the work of clearing Cumbria and Lake District rivers of waste – against a background of widespread dumping by water companies.

Volunteers begin the work of clearing Cumbria and Lake District rivers of waste – against a background of widespread dumping by water companies.
The Home Office decides to grab headlines by placing asylum seekers on ferries.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his budget whilst the NHS collapses all around him and the junior doctors go on strike.
A government minister is in a spot of hot water this week as he admits to being distracted and forgetting to declare a few offshore accounts to the Inland Revenue.
More strikes sweep across the nation as the whole country appears set to go on strike and the government adopts a tough boy attitude.