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The low spring tide this year exposed the banks of the Thames to the full glare of public view. It didn't present a pretty site.

Volunteers donned welly boots to trudge through the clammy mud at the Isle of Dogs and North Woolwich and found a range of unsavoury and unsightly items.

It’s been a bad week for plastic bags.

Marks & Spencer has announced that as of May 6 it’s going to charge five pence for every plastic bag customers need to carry food purchases. Now five pence isn’t going to break the bank, but it will be interesting to see if consumers are prepared to cough up or whether some will see this as a moral crusade too far.

M&S reckons it hands out 394million bags for food every year – which is a lot of unused carriers stuffed under the sink.