Realtime pollution alerts are needed across Windermere urgently, campaigners have said, as the mother of a seven-year-old boy who kayaked on the lake described how he nearly died after contracting a dangerous strain of E coli from contaminated water. Claire Earley’s son Rex spent six weeks in hospital, and underwent two emergency operations, after a family kayaking trip on Windermere last August. Rex contracted the same strain of E coli as nine-year-old Heather Preen, who died in 1999 after swimming in Devon and was featured in the recent Channel 4 drama Dirty Business, which covered the sewage scandal that has
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