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Beauty-spot lochs contaminated by toxic chemicals

They look like pristine, unpolluted beauty spots – but in fact they are contaminated with toxic pesticides.

The sea lochs that line Scotland’s north-west coast, famed for their natural splendour, are polluted by poisonous chemicals used by fish farms, surveys by the Scottish Government’s green watchdog have revealed.

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