IN THE PRESS
LOCAL NEWS AND THEMES:
The River Sid has often been featured in the local press.
Here are a few pieces from the last decade or so.
ARBORETUM
- Sidmouth group plant their 14,000th tree a year early | Sidmouth Herald (December 2025)
- New Tree Trail leaflet produced by Sidmouth Arboretum | Sidmouth Herald (June 2023)
- Jacobs designed an innovative, flood-resistant amphitheatre that stores 150,000 gallons of water underground – One Water Blog (April 2023)
- Listing tree threatens homes on River Sid | Sidmouth Herald (2017)
BALSAM
- (20+) Dosthill Park Wildlife Group DPWG | Just five of us this morning but we made a huge difference to the amount of Balsam growing by the river | Facebook (August 2025)
- Control Of Himalayan Balsam On The River Sid – Sid Valley Biodiversity Group (August 2023)
- Sidmouth’s Wonderful Balsam Bashers | Sidmouth Herald (2022)
- (20+) SIDMOUTH community for the people | The Biodiversity Group is looking to catalogue any Japanese Knotweed in the valley | Facebook (2022)
- Gardeners needed for Sidmouth’s annual Balsam bashing | Sidmouth Herald (2017)
- More volunteers needed to help bash the balsam | Sidmouth Herald (2015)
- Volunteers needed to help ‘bash the balsam’ in Sidmouth | Sidmouth Herald (2014)
DREDGING
- VIDEO: work underway in Sidmouth to clear the river bed in The Byes | Sidmouth Nub News (2021)
- Floods and dredging: explaining the Environment Agency’s approach – Creating a better place (2021)
- Sidmouth Beach Plan on Display – Dredging Today (2019)
- Council replenishes Sidmouth’s East Beach with storm shingle deposits | The Exeter Daily (2016)
- Futures Forum: Flooding: “Have decisions made by the public and politicians alike made things worse?” (2015)
- Sidmouth’s Coastal Scheme Moves Forward – Dredging Today (2015)
- Tight window of opportunity to give Sidmouth beaches a ‘winter blanket’ | Somerset County Gazette (2014)
- Futures Forum: Flooding in the West Country… and dredging rivers (2014)
- River dredging material to shore up Sidmouth cliffs – BBC News (2012)
- Flooding at Sidford 24 November 2012 (2012)
FISHING
- Salmon now ‘functionally extinct’ in this English river | SalmonBusiness (December 2025)
- OPINION: Sticklebacks back in River Sid, Sidmouth, Devon | Sidmouth Herald (November 2025)
- Project is working to bring salmon back to the River Sid | Sidmouth Herald (April 2024)
- Salmon still breeding in the river Sid – but not enough | Sidmouth Herald (September 2025)
- Fishing on the Sid – The Sid (2022)
- (20+) There are fish in the waters of the… – Vision Group for Sidmouth | Facebook (2022)
- The best places for fishing in and around Sidmouth (2021)
- A father and son and the Otter | Eat, Sleep, Fish – DEVEL (A profile of Colin Nice: 2018)
- Fishing on the River Sid (Devon, England) | pinfishing.com (2027)
- River Sid | Devon Rivers Forum (2015)
- River Sid | Devon Rivers Forum (2011)
FISH LADDER OR FISH PASS
- Salmon functionally extinct in Devon river due to weir, says charity – BBC News (December 2025)
- (20+) Sid Valley Biodiversity Group | Migratory Fish Struggling With The Huge Weirs On The River Sid Get A Helping Hand From Local Residents | Facebook (November 2024)
- River Sid Fish Lift – Sid Valley Biodiversity Group (November 2024)
- A Fish Ladder For The Sid? – Sid Valley Biodiversity Group (April 2024)
- (20+) Sid Valley Biodiversity Group | The Sid has numerous weirs, some are from an industrial past … and some are so big that they prevent fish migrating | Facebook (January 2024)
- Fish Pass Advisory Service Sidmouth site visit | Environment Agency (January 2023)
- River Sid, Devon Advisory Visit | Wild Trout Trust (2021)
- ‘Fish ladder needed to help river’s salmon and trout’ | Sidmouth Herald (2015)
- River Sid | Devon Rivers Forum (discussion 2011)
- Sidmouth fish rescue season starts | Sidmouth Herald (2011)
- Sidmouth fish release finds brown sea trout | Sidmouth Herald (2010)
FISH LADDER OR FISH PASS – DEVON
- Lopwell Dam Fish Ladder – Lopwell, Devon, UK – Fish Ladders on Waymarking.com (Plymouth 2022)
- A38 weir scheme helps fish migration in Devon – National Highways (Dartmoor 2022)
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Fish Ladder installed at Gundry’s Weir (River Brit, West Dorset – September 2014)
- Tipton fish pass site now ‘eyesore’ | Sidmouth Herald (2013)
- Fish ladder on the River Otter © David Smith cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland (2011)
FLOODING
- How to stop your garden from becoming a flood hotspot | Sidmouth Herald (December 2025)
- Letter: A lesson for Sidmouth after disastrous floods | Sidmouth Herald (November 2024)
- East Devon schemes to reduce flash-flood risk get £1.4m boost (February 2024)
- How roads become rivers – Vision Group for Sidmouth (December 2023)
- Flood warnings in place as heavy rain lashes Devon | Sidmouth Herald (December 2023)
- Placating the Sid – Sid Valley Biodiversity Group (July 2023)
- Flood preparation and safety – Vision Group for Sidmouth (2022)
- A closer look at flooding in Devon throughout the years | Sidmouth Herald (2021)
- Sidmouth homes to be protected from flooding | Vision Group for Sidmouth (2018)
- Sidmouth’s Great Flood Exhibition (2018)
- Flood Risk Management Action Plan 201819 PTE188.pdf (2018)
- £800k scheme to protect Sidmouth from ‘very real threat of flooding’ approved | Devon Live (2018)
- 600 tonne muddy legacy of Sidmouth floods | Sidmouth Herald (2012)
- Flooding at Sidford 24 November 2012 (2012)
- Sidmouth – Flood Preparation – YouTube (2012)
- River Sid floods in The Byes Sidmouth 7th July 2012 – YouTube (2012)
- Sidmouth, Devon, UK floods – YouTube (July 2012)
- Flooding in Sidmouth not caused by river or sea (2009)
FRIENDS OF THE BYES
- Behind the scenes with Sidmouth’s Friends of The Byes | Sidmouth Herald (September 2023)
- What’s happening in the Byes? | Sidmouth Herald (2022)
- Our beautiful river Sid unassumingly, and so so gracefully ... (2020)
- Sidmouth Friends of the Byes – fantastic response to anniversary month | Sidmouth Herald (2020)
- River Sid in the spring… What beauty! (2020)
- 1/3 A walk along the river… in the shade of the trees… (2019)
- Wildflower Meadow in the Byes – Vision Group for Sidmouth (2014)
- BEE Project for Sidmouth gets �50k grant | Sidmouth Herald (2011)
INFRASTRUCTURE
- East Devon readies procurement for £21M Sidmouth coastal defence scheme | New Civil Engineer (May 2025)
- Railings at Riverside Walk being removed and replaced | Sidmouth Herald (April 2023)
- Byes cycle bridge closed for repairs | Sidmouth Herald (2022)
- Latest on plans to stop Sidmouth’s cliffs from collapsing into the sea | Devon Live (2020)
- New Alma Bridge officially opened | Sidmouth Herald (2020)
- Sidmouth’s Alma bridge nearly finished – Radio Exe (2020)
- PHOTOS: Something missing from the River Sid? Century-old Alma Bridge is no more (2020)
- County Council investing in Sidmouth bridges – Vision Group for Sidmouth (2019)
- Plan to stop Sidmouth from washing away to go on show | Devon Live (2018)
- Futures Forum: Replacing Alma Bridge to secure a lifeline for both residents and visitors alike (2017)
- Futures Forum: The rise of hydropower: good news or bad news? (2016)
- Futures Forum: Sidmouth Beach Management Plan… Pennington Point… Alma Bridge… “Due to the environmental status of this site preventing any protection works, it is not possible for DCC to undertake the bridge replacement at its current position” (2015)
LYME BAY
- Bottom trawling: Lyme Bay ‘still recovering’ – BBC News (June 2025)
- £870,000 awarded to investigate impact of offshore aquaculture | The Fish Site (July 2023)
- An uncertain future for Devon’s mussel farming industry | Vision Group for Sidmouth (2021)
- Fishing boats spend thousands of hours ‘bottom trawling’ protected seabeds around the UK (2021)
OTTERS
- Otter on the River Sid, Sidmouth, Devon. – Ian Humphries Photography | Facebook (November 2023)
- More shots of otters today on the river… – Paul Clayden Photography (November 2022)
- ‘A lucky week for nature spotting in Sidmouth…’ | Sidmouth Herald (2021)
- Sidmouth resident catches rare footage of otter in the River Sid | Sidmouth Herald (2020)
- Watch rare footage of an otter in the River Sid | Sidmouth Herald (2020)
- PHOTOS: Eagle-eyed photographer spots otter feeding near Sidmouth | East Devon News (2020)
- An otter-ly unsual sighting at River Sid | Sidmouth Herald (2014)
- Otter watch lauch at River Sid | Sidmouth Herald (2011)
POLLUTION
- Sidmouth sewage system improvements welcomed by council | Sidmouth Herald (April 2023)
- Devon MP accuses South West Water of ‘illegal sewage spills’ – BBC News (December 2023)
- Multi-million-pound boost for East Devon sewage system (April 2023)
- New multi-million-pound sewage system investment for Sidmouth | Local News | News | Sidmouth Nub News | by Will Goddard (April 2023)
- Raw sewage in our rivers: holding water companies and the government to account – Vision Group for Sidmouth (2022)
- Drugs in our rivers – Vision Group for Sidmouth (2021)
- EA report: in the South West, only one in every five rivers support a healthy ecology – Vision Group for Sidmouth (2021)
- Scientists from Exeter University find banned pesticides in the River Otter | Sidmouth Herald (2018)
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A survey by the sewage swab method of latent enteric infection in an urban area (1952)
PORT ROYAL AND THE HAM
- 6 September 2023 – Port Royal redevelopment proposals – East Devon (September 2023)
- The far eastern end of the Ham and river training wall will have remedial works carried out and an improved larger slipway, specifically to provide speedier lifeboat-launching. ‘Massive step forward’ for protection of Sidmouth beaches | Local News | News | Sidmouth Nub News | by Will Goddard (March 2023)
- Should a “green corridor” be formally established following the River Sid, between Port Royal and the Byes, with the establishment of a nature trail to improve pathway connections from the seafront to Sidford? Optimism is growing as community garden project gets under way | Sidmouth Herald (2021)
- Report on Port Royal Questions (2017)
- Global interest in competition to ‘re-imagine’ Sidmouth | Sidmouth Herald (2016)
- Futures Forum: Port Royal: Envisioning the Ham Sidmouth >>> new book and local entry to architecture competition (2016)
- Futures Forum: 28th January 2003: “EDDC is proposing a coast protection scheme aimed at reducing the rate of cliff erosion at Pennington Point. The scheme would protect the properties located at the top of Salcombe Hill and the Alma Bridge.” (2015)
- Enhancement of the Ham and the river side as a green area in East Town should be a key component of any Port Royal redevelopment. A Vision for Sidmouth (2006)
PROJECTS
- Project to revitalise Ham riverside walk in Sidmouth set to begin | Local News | News | Sidmouth Nub News | by Will Goddard (May 2023)
- Is installing reed beds a viable option to clean our water? – Vision Group for Sidmouth (November 2023)
- ‘The West Country Rivers Trust try electrofishing on the Sid’ | Sidmouth Herald (September 2023)
- Wetland restoration – the Continent, the UK and the Sid Valley – Vision Group for Sidmouth (2022)
- Futures Forum: Devon Wildlife Trust… and SVA.. and the River Sid Project (2013)
- Looking after the River Sid – the restoration project making a splash in East Devon | The Exeter Daily (2013)
RIVER SID CATCHMENT GROUP
- Volunteers rescue sea trout from School Weir in The Byes | Sidmouth Herald (November 2025)
- 2024-2025-Westcountry-Rivers-Trust-Electrofishing-Report-Fry-Index-Survey-by-Hannah-Parvin.pdf (January 2025)
- Resources – River Sid Catchment Group (July 2025)
- Here is a run down on what we have been up to (December 2024)
- River Sid Catchment Group Successes 2024 – Sid Valley Biodiversity Group (December 2024)
- Our outreach project will benefit many young people | Sidmouth Herald (November 2024)
- The River Sid Catchment Group are looking for new members | Sidmouth Herald (March 2024
- Café Scientifique: Salmon in the Sid. Is there hope? – Sidmouth Town Council (2023)
- Project – Opening the Sid – River Sid Catchment Group (2022)
SID VALLEY BIODIVERSITY GROUP
- Sid Valley Biodiversity Group | Sidmouth Herald = full list of Herald pieces
- Sidmouth Nature Festival 2025 – FREE Events – Sid Valley Biodiversity Group (June 2025)
- Our outreach project will benefit many young people | Sidmouth Herald (November 2024)
- Ed Dolphin of Sid Vale Biodiversity Group on river canaries | Sidmouth Herald (November 2023)
- ‘The West Country Rivers Trust try electrofishing on the Sid’ | Sidmouth Herald (September 2023)
- Report On The Water Quality Of The River Sid, Its Tributaries And Bickwell Brook. – Sid Valley Biodiversity Group (September 2023)
SIDMOUTH IN BLOOM
- Gardeners go even greener to keep Sidmouth sustainably in bloom | Sidmouth Herald (2022)
- Hidden urban gardens – Vision Group for Sidmouth (2019)
- Snowdrops bloom along the Sid River (2015)
THE RIVER SID
- Confluence – the River Sid and Its Tributaries | Sidmouth School Of Art (December 2025)
- (20+) Friends of the River Axe | If you go down to the River Sid today you’d have been in for a big surprise .. | Facebook (November 2025)
- Electro-fishing, who lives in our river? (2024)
- In pictures: the wildlife of the River Sid | Sidmouth Herald (January 2023)
- River Sid Devon. (2022)
- Is the River Sid the shortest river in England? | Sidmouth Herald (2021)
- Initial findings show town’s waterways are healthy | Sidmouth Herald (2021)
- Sidmouth photographer captures beauty of The Byes | Sidmouth Herald (2020)
- Autumn is the ideal time to enjoy a trip to Devon’s Sidmouth | The Sun (2020)
- 8 images tagged with ‘River Sid’ :: Geograph Britain and Ireland
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