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Comedians join environment campaigners to condemn Lake Windermere water pollution
Paul Whitehouse, Lee Mack, Steve Coogan and founder Matt Staniek with campaigner during a Save Windermere - stop the sewage campaign event in Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, today
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COMEDY stars Steve Coogan and Lee Mack have thrown their weight behind a campaign to stop water profiteer United Utilities (UU) polluting England’s largest lake.
The pair called the sewage pollution of Cumbria’s Lake Windermere a “national scandal.”
They headed a Friends of the Lake District charity fundraiser today in Bowness-on-Windermere.
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