Brighton: Protests over 'toxic sludge' from dredging (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Campaigners have protested to try and stop what they say are harmful sediments being dumped into a protected marine conservation zone.

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) and the Sussex Wildlife Trust oppose the renewal of a license allowing Brighton Marina to dispose of dredged sediment at a site in Rottingdean, sitting in the Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone.

SAS member Atlanta Cook told the BBC material from dredging fills nearby rock pools with a "black, thick, slimy, petrochemically smelling sludge", which she claimed harms the environment and people.

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