United Utilities is building a huge sewage tunnel beneath the city centre to improve drainage and water quality.

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Thames Water said the new tunnel is needed to stop increasing amounts of sewage being discharged into the Thames from the Victorian sewers.

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He said the proposed Thames Tunnel offered "the most timely, comprehensive and cost effective solution" to raw sewage being dumped into the Thames.

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