The Environment Agency described Price's previous offence as the worst riverside destruction.

John Price's actions were described by the judge as "ecological vandalism on an industrial scale".

John Price's sentence is cut by two months after he appealed against his year long sentence.

The Environment Agency warns it might take decades for the diversity of the river to be restored.

John Price destroyed habitats and wildlife on an unspoiled stretch of the River Lugg.

A farmer re-profiled a river described as one of the UK's best salmon waterways, a court is told.

Charges are being brought by Natural England and the Environment Agency.