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For developed land, the agency looks at the hazard of the surrounding areas and estimates how far fire could spill over into urban regions.

Martin Slater, Director of Operations at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust said the time of the year that this spill has occurred is particularly worrying.

Even with the rescue deal, Thames still has huge debts and is struggling to fix leaks, sewage spills and modernise outdated infrastructure.

Few fallouts have spilled out into the open in recent years – and those that did were picked over simply because they're so rare.

Occasionally this has spilled into public view, most notably when the prime minister in December claimed that "too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline".