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Other beaches overlooking failures in water quality in the EU

May 15, 2015 at 14:06 clock updates BST

Dozens of British beaches and lakes are in danger, the highest standards of water quality in Europe can not be reached this summer.

The Environment Agency said that the new European rules are twice as difficult to pass.

Every week until the end of September, officials from the Environment Agency will be paddling in the sea and lakes, to take water samples at 400 locations.

Claire Marshall reports.

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