Paul Whitehouse and Joanna Lumley lead calls to save chalk streams
Joanna Lumley and Paul Whitehouse are leading calls for the government to resurrect an abandoned plan to save England's rare chalk streams.
England is home to about 85 per cent of the globally important rivers, including the Avon, Frome and Stour which Sir David Attenborough highlighted in his Wild Isles series.
However, they are threatened by too much water abstraction and sewage spills, which led the previous government to commission a 'chalk stream recovery pack' to rescue the waterways, which trout and other species rely on.
Despite the author of the rescue plan saying it is 'agreed and written', Labour quietly shelved it after coming to power.
Now a group of celebrities have joined forces with conservationists fighting to save the plan, using a
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