THAMES Water has been given a final sentencing date in relation to breaching Environment Agency regulations.

The water giant will appear at Oxford Crown Court next month charged with allowing untreated raw sewage to pour into a brook at Milton-under-Wychwood in 2015.

The EA says that at least 82,500 litres of untreated raw sewage went into the brook and more than 100 fish died as a result.

The sentencing hearing will take place at the same court on December 21.

Last year the company was fined a record £20.3m for polluting the Thames with 1.9 billion litres of untreated raw sewage, the largest fine to hit a water firm.