内容摘要：Mr Howells said he's "excited" to "finally be able to tell the story in his own words".

Mr Howells said he's "excited" to "finally be able to tell the story in his own words".

The River Teifi has been ranked the fifth most sewage-polluted river in the UK, with 2,232 spills recorded in 2024, lasting over 22,000 hours.In the previous year, the river which forms the boundary between Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire was ninth in the rankings.

Several other local rivers, including the Solva, Cleddau, Nevern, Ystwyth, and Rheidol, also experienced significant sewage dumping.said it is investing more than £25m in the Teifi area and £2.5bn across Wales to tackle phosphate pollution and improve water quality.The Teifi shares its fifth place with other heavily polluted rivers in the UK like the Avon, Trent and Ouse.

According to figures from campaign group, other rivers in mid and west Wales were also polluted:

A Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water spokesperson said it was investing more than £20m to redevelop the Cardigan Wastewater Treatment works, which is known to be a major contributor to spills in the Teifi.

An additional £5m will be spent on three other Teifi sites to improve the river's water quality.Trump's incoming national security adviser Mike Waltz has said that foreign hackers must face "higher costs and consequences".

Mr Forno, of the UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, said the hacks were probably years in the making."China traditionally takes a very long and strategic view of how they conduct their espionage and intelligence operations," he said. "The US tends to be much more reactive and much more interested in immediate and visible results."

China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a news briefing that the accusations were "baseless" and "lacking evidence"."China consistently opposes all forms of hacking and firmly rejects the dissemination of false information targeting China for political purposes," Mao said.