Campaigners say the eco-system rarity does not have enough legal protection.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pippa Heylings said the protection would allow for more investment into chalk streams [Tom Jackson/BBC] A Cambridgeshire MP is to ...

I fished two world-famous chalk streams and experienced some of the most pristine and technical fly fishing waters in the ...

Pollution spotted in an East Yorkshire chalk steam is thought to have come from road run-off, a water company has said. Yorkshire Water told the BBC it had investigated the contamination of Driffield ...

Pippa Heylings, MP for South Cambridgeshire, wants the UK’s chalk streams designated as a Natural World Heritage Site under ...

The River Itchen is one of only six chalk streams in England that support Atlantic salmon, the MP said Sewage spills into a Hampshire river could threaten the future of Atlantic salmon, an MP has ...

Salmon fishing on the River Test has been banned for the first time because of overfishing. A week after salmon fishing season began on the chalk-stream river, its managers decide ...

National Lottery funding of £17,000 has been granted to Friends of Cherry Hinton and Coldham’s Brooks (FCHCB) for a film about the vital chalk stream. The announcement came on the same day a bid was ...

The Bishop of Norwich has joined Norfolk MPs and peers in a bid to gain UNESCO natural world heritage status for chalk rivers rated ...