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Feargal Sharkey

June 2024

  • Trees reflected in a tranquil river on a misty early morning

    Tory deputy chair dismissed sewage crisis as ‘political football’

    Angela Richardson accuses campaigners against polluted water of putting Conservative MPs in danger

February 2024

  • Robert Macfarlane, Matt Haig and Feargal Sharkey

    Arts Council England mired in row over ‘political statements’ warning

    Robert Macfarlane, Feargal Sharkey and Matt Haig are among artists to react with fury to message about funding risks

November 2023

  • A sewage overflow outlet discharges into a river

    Ban bonuses to water company bosses, Ofwat told

    Regulator under pressure to act after finding executive payouts at three English suppliers were not justified

June 2023

  • Feargal Sharkey

    Taxpayer cash must not be used to bail out Thames Water, says Feargal Sharkey

    Campaigner says firm should be brought under public control using powers in original privatisation legislation

April 2023

  • Feargal Sharkey beside the River Lea in Hertfordshire.

    ‘Every river in this country is polluted’: how Feargal Sharkey got swept up by the clean water campaign

    The former Undertones frontman was searching for a hobby and ended up an environmental campaigner. And he’s a man who can win an argument

November 2022

  • The River Chelmer near Chelmsford in Essex. The abstraction licensing regime dates back to the 1960s and successive governments have pledged to reform it for more than a decade.

    Environment Agency has ‘no idea’ how much water is taken, says whistleblower

    Exclusive: most extraction points for rivers and groundwater not metered, so government relies on users’ honesty

August 2022

  • Dead fish on the Silchester Brook, Hampshire, after sewage pollution from a water treatment works.

    Environment Agency pension fund criticised for owning stakes in UK water firms

    Campaigner Feargal Sharkey says profiteering from firms that dump raw sewage into rivers an ‘obscenity’

June 2021

  • pop pilgrimage

    UK pop pilgrimages: from Paul McCartney’s Kintyre to Giggs’s Peckham

    With festivals looking thin on the ground, why not visit the places that have inspired some of our best songs and greatest bands, including Pulp, the Undertones and … Cliff Richard

December 2018

  • Feargal Sharkey on the River Lea near Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

    Feargal Sharkey’s mission to save our chalk streams

    The former Undertones lead singer and keen fly fisherman is taking on the water companies and Environment Agency

March 2016

  • Martin Bradley, second from left, with the rest of the Undertones in 1978.

    When I got my Top of the Pops break, Mum got me new pyjamas

    Michael Bradley, the Undertones’ bass player, had a strict Catholic upbringing. But when it came to rock ‘n’ roll, his mother’s main concern was to stop him slouching

June 2015

  • Alan Cumming, left, and Kristin Chenoweth

    Tonys 2015: a good show for women but not quite fit for a queen

    Alexis Soloski
    Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth co-hosted a lacklustre ceremony that rewarded women on Broadway even as it failed to give them screentime

May 2014

  • New Jersey smart gun

    Gun control groups accuse New Jersey of ignoring 'smart gun' law

    Lawsuit aims to force attorney general to issue progress reports as gun control advocates say so-called smart guns will save lives

May 2013

  • Good Vibrations music shop film

    Cult punk film revives hunt for Ulster arsonist

    Discoverer of Undertones calls for fresh inquiry into 2004 blaze that destroyed huge collection of Northern Irish punk

November 2011

  • Feargal Sharkey

    Feargal Sharkey stands down as chief of UK Music

  • copyright coffee

    Tech Weekly
    Tech Weekly podcast: Tech City Talk - Intellectual Property and Copyright

October 2011

  • Feargal Sharkey

    Tech city talks
    Tech Weekly Live: Tech City Talk (Intellectual Property) reading list

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    When bands fall off cliffs

July 2010

  • Feargal Sharkey at the Ivor Novello Awards, 2008.

    Lord Feargal Sharkey? UK Music head could be set for life peerage

    Former Undertones frontman and Teenage Kicks singer rumoured to be in line for seat in the House of Lords

April 2010

  • Feargal Sharkey

    Tech Weekly
    Tech Weekly: Digital Economy Act aftermath and designing for disabilities

    Feargal Sharkey of UK Music and Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group discuss the implications of the Digital Economy Act. Plus, designers, engineers and disability experts talk about product design for people who are less able

March 2010

  • Glastonbury Festival 2009

    Sharkey calls for musical backing from ministers

    UK Music wants cabinet committee to coordinate creative industries, ministries and investors
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