Sewage leaks ‘8,400 times’
Pets sniff out Linda’s deadly breast cancer
A WATER firm has been accused of letting toxic sewage escape treatment plants 8,400 times.
Southern, which operates in Hampshire, Sussex and Kent, faces 46 charges of permit breaches and five of poisonous waste entering controlled waters.
Maidstone magistrates heard 4,000 of the incidents, between 2010 and 2015, lasted over an hour.
The firm said it “will be as transparent as possible.”
The next hearing is at Maidstone crown court.
COUPLE With husband Keith
A PET owner has told how she owes her life to her pet dogs after they detected she had breast cancer.
Linda Munkley, 65, said German shepherds Bea and Enya started acting strangely with her.
Five-year-old Bea would frequently jump up and butt or paw her chest. She and husband Keith thought the dog was being weird. But as the behaviour went on, Linda checked her breasts.
She found nothing unusual at first but after around six weeks she noticed a tingling sensation in her chest and under her arms.
Linda went to the doctor and a mammogram found she had a fast-growing, aggressive breast tumour. But after an operation to remove the lump along with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, her cancer has now all gone.
Linda, of Bargoed, South Wales, said: “The doctor was amazed. She told me to go home and give my dogs a hug, because they had saved my life. She said it was one of the most successful set of chemotherapy results they had ever seen.
“The cancer was aggressive but my dogs had alerted me to it so early, before there was even a lump, that the chemotherapy managed to kill it off completely.”