A £100 million scheme to clean up Lancashire's coastline was today unveiled by North West Water, as Lancashire County Council leader Louise Ellman met water bosses to press for even better water treatment than planned.

Lancashire's coast, branded the most popular and the most polluted in Britain, was to be cleaner and safer by 1995, when a new sewage treatment plant was set to come into operation.

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