Pollution alerts have been issued for parts of Dorset.

According to marine charity Surfers Against Sewage, Charmouth (west stream) and Chesil Cove at Chiswell on Portland and are currently a pollution risk, meaning sewage has been discharged within the past 48 hours.

An interactive map from Surfers Against Sewage tracks all sewage discharge and issues alerts to warn the public.

Warnings are triggered when sewerage has entered the water within the last 48 hours.

The discharges follows a period of heavy rainfall across Dorset.

Wessex Water says the overflows are permitted by the Environment Agency and operate automatically, releasing mostly stormwater during or after intense rainfall to prevent flooding in people’s homes.

As reported, Wessex Water has pledged to install monitors at every sewage overflow in the southwest by the end of next year.

The company currently has monitors at more than 80 per cent of overflows in the region but has said that figure will rise to 100 per cent by the end of 2023.