More than half of Scotland’s popular beaches ‘blighted’ with unsafe levels of raw sewage this year

Isabella Boneham
By Isabella Boneham
Published 25th Sep 2023, 11:34 BST
Updated 25th Sep 2023, 11:35 BST
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One tourist hotspot was found to have sewage levels at least 50 times the safe limit

More than half of Scotland’s popular beaches have been blighted with unsafe levels of raw sewage this year.

Fifty out of 89 of the country’s bathing waters breached safety limits for faecal bacteria at least once when they were tested since May.

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