Danny Dyer hands petition to No 10 over water industry nationalisation

• Actor Danny Dyer has handed a petition to Number 10 Downing Street demanding that the government bring the water industry back into public ownership.
• The petition, created by the campaign group SOS Whitstable, gathered more than 345,000 signatures online.
• Dyer was joined at Downing Street by Labour MP Kevin McKenna, who commended the actor for keeping the national campaign in the spotlight.
• The campaign accuses privatised water firms of failing to reinvest profits to upgrade infrastructure, causing environmental damage and threatening public health.
• The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Water UK have been approached for comment.

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Danny Dyer delivers petition to Downing Street demanding nationalisation of water industry