Swans have been filmed swimming through an apparent sewage spill from a water company outlet on the River Avon.

Swans have been filmed swimming through an apparent sewage spill from a water company outlet on the River Avon. Paul Powlesland, an environmental campaigner, took footage of a flock of swans and ducks swimming and feeding as brown water poured into the river in Bath,

Bosses of regional sewage company Wessex Water have been challenged by music star-turned river campaigner Feargal Sharkey to drink a glass of ‘heavily diluted’ rainwater and run-off, after a video of swans swimming in a ‘plume of raw sewage’ in the River Avon went viral on social media.