20/02/15
– River Beane media coverage
Beane Catchment Partnership is on Twitter
The Beane Catchment Partnership is now on Twitter! Follow us @BeaneCatchment. Read more ...
31/07/13
– River Beane media coverage
Our rivers take centre stage in BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts!
The Rivers Beane and Mimram are the setting for a discussion of where we get our water from and the price, financial and environmental, we pay for it. Read more ...
04/07/13
– River Beane media coverage
Can you Face the Facts?
BBC Radio 4's long-running 'Face the Facts' programme to feature the Beane and Mimram!
The episode, to be broadcast on July 29th, focuses on the issue of over abstraction of our groundwater and the devastating impacts on our chalk rivers. Read more ...
29/06/13
– River Beane media coverage
BBC Radio 4 to visit the Beane
BBC Radio 4 programme 'Face the Facts' hosted by John Waite will visit the River Beane and Mimram on July 2nd for interviews and fact finding about the state of chalk stream following the launch of the Chalk Stream Charter recently. At present the broadcast date has not been decided.
17/06/13
– River Beane media coverage
Defra blog features Beane and Mimram Partnership
Defra's latest 'Love Your River' blog has been written by Hertfordshire Living Rivers Officer Charlie Bell.
The blog discusses the challenges and successes of the Beane and Mimram Catchment Partnership. Read more ...
19/02/13
– River Beane media coverage
Our chalk rivers on Three Counties Radio
Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust's Charlie Bell was interviewed on BBC Three Counties Radio on 19th Feb. She was talking about our rare local chalk streams, including the Beane and Mimram, and the Catchment Management Plan. Read more ...
11/02/13
– River Beane media coverage
Stevenage Comet features the Catchment Plan
11/02/13 News
The Stevenage Comet is the latest local paper to feature the launch of the Beane and Mimram catchment plan.
They ran the story on 9th February. Read more ...
07/06/12
– River Beane media coverage
Local MP visits stricken River Beane
Stevenage MP Stephen McPartland met with environmental groups on Friday 25 May 2012 on the River Beane, to see firsthand the impacts of decades of damaging levels of water abstraction. He met representatives of the River Beane Restoration Association (RBRA), Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust (HMWT), WWF and the Environment Agency to discuss the problems facing the Beane. It is hoped that his visit will inject momentum into plans to reduce abstraction and restore the river. Read more ...