A £2.7m scheme to improve water quality at one of Hampshire’s treasured chalk streams has been successfully completed. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited ...

A historic chalk stream immortalised by a Poet Laureate has been granted ‘personhood’ by a council, giving it the right to sue. The River Loddon, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, will be recognised as a ...

Early feasibility work will help the local authority understand whether areas might be suitable for designation, previously known as an Area ...

Winchester City Council pledges to do more to protect rivers and chalk streams across the district.

A plan to restore chalk streams in England, a vital type of river that plays host to species such as kingfishers, mayflies and dragonflies, may take decades despite millions of pounds worth of ...

The world has fewer than 300 chalk streams — and England has most of them. These streams occur only where chalk bedrock meets the Earth’s surface, making them globally rare. Their stable, cool, ...