BOSSES at South West Water spent too much time making excuses and not enough tackling problems at a troublesome city sewage works, a court has ruled.
Judge Ian Lawrie fined the company £214,000 for allowing too much pollution into the water from the ageing Camels Head plant.
Giving his full reasons for the sentence at Plymouth Crown Court last month, he said that managers had been negligent in ignoring "warning signs" that the equipment would fail.
Judge Lawrie said it was a "matter of...
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