A ladder had to be removed from a sewer before it caused a "severe blockage" in the network, a utilities provider has said.

Yorkshire Water has issued a stark warning to people in West Yorkshire - don't use manholes as bins to throw away unwanted items. Of all the things to find in the sewers, an extension of a ladder in ...

Yorkshire Water is to invest £6.2m in reducing storm ... Station Road sewage station in Norton will get new valves, manhole chambers and line pipework, costing £550,000. And Bentley Moor sewage ...

Yorkshire Water said the extending ladder was found in Dewsbury by its field workers after it was thrown down a manhole. A spokesperson said large items being inappropriately disposed of in the ...