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20
sentences that state something as happening or true
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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Actor Danny Dyer, his daughter Dani Dyer and singer Becky Hill have attended a protest in Kent demanding public ownership of the water industry.
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Dyer → publish → industry
Activists from Surfers Against Sewage descended on Leysdown on Sunday after 315,000 signed a petition calling for the water industry to be returned to public ownership.
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industry → descend → ownership
Rivals and EastEnders star Dyer, who has been running a caravan park on Isle of Sheppey as part of a new TV series, told the BBC: "Sometimes when you look out to the sea, you can smell the twang in the air."
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you → run → air
Water UK said that "no sewage spill is ever acceptable", while Southern Water said it was committed to reducing storm overflows.
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it → say → overflows
Dyer said that the quality of the water was "a disgrace".
"It's a very dangerous thing," he told the BBC.
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he → say → BBC
Meanwhile Hill said that she loved swimming in the open water but found it "disgusting" to find human waste in the sea.
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it → say → sea
She said that she was campaigning for her family and other families for a cleaner sea.
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she → say → sea
"We can stand up and make a difference," she added.
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she → stand → difference
Ed Acteson, co-founder of the protest organisers SOS Whitstable, said: "The public has had enough of being asked to accept polluted waterways, failing infrastructure and rising bills.
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public → say → waterways
We want an industry run in the interests of people and the environment, with its income reinvested in the system rather than extracted from it."
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income → want → it
'National catastrophe'
Meanwhile Cliff Roney, a GMB activist who has worked in the water industry for more than 40 years, said: "I have seen this industry at its very best and now at its very worst.
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I → work → worst
"If the industry is not brought back into public ownership quickly, we are heading towards a national catastrophe."
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we → bring → catastrophe
Water UK said it was working to end sewage spills "as fast as we physically can".
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we → say → spills
"That's why we are tripling investment over the next five years to halve spills from storm overflows and upgrade the capacity of 1,700 wastewater treatment works," a spokesperson said.
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spokesperson → triple → works
"This is part of a record £104bn investment programme – the largest in the industry's history – to stop sewage entering our rivers and seas, secure our water supplies and support economic growth."
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sewage → stop → growth
Southern Water's director for environment and innovation, Nick Mills, said its 10-year, £1.5bn Clean Rivers and Seas Plan was "already starting to make a difference".
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Plan → say → difference
"In Whitstable, we're harnessing both AI and nature-based solutions, and we're investing £90m in improvements to Swalecliffe Wastewater Treatment Works.
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we → harness → Works
Together, these measures will dramatically reduce storm overflows in the area."
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measures → reduce → area
According to Defra's Bathing Water Quality site, the most recent classification for Leysdown is rated good, based on samples taken from 2022 to 2025.
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classification → accord → 2025
There have been no pollution incidents reported there, the website states.
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website → report → ?
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