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Lumen is your modern news app; it.It reads the UK’s climate coverage, groups the reporting of one event into a single story, and sets it against the public record.

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Your climate story, held to the record, every morning.

Who funded the people in the story, straight from the register.

Dated milestones from a public record, in the order they happened.

How many outlets ran this story - and how unusual that number is.

How many outlets called it a crisis - and how many of them did not.

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The edition

Too many articles. One story.

Your feed today, and the same event after Lumen has grouped it. Flip between them.

Your feed today 7 articles · Reading time: 21m

  1. Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty

    BBC News
  2. Thames Water hit with biggest ever fine of £122.7m over pollution and dividends

    ITV News
  3. Thames Water hit with record fine

    The Telegraph
  4. Thames Water slapped with £122.7m fine in biggest penalty in history

    LBC
  5. Thames Water handed £122.7m fine for sewage and dividend breaches

    The London Economic
  6. Thames Water receives £122.7m fine in reported sewage spills crackdown

    Envirotec
  7. Ofwat castigates Thames Water for ‘systemic failure’ and issues unprecedented £123M in fines

    New Civil Engineer

The same story in Lumen 1 story · Reading time: 1m 30s

Thames Water fined a record £122.7m over sewage

Ofwat issued two penalties at once: £104.5m for its wastewater operations and £18.2m for breaking the rules on dividends. Both are paid by the company and its investors, not by customers.

Only 2 headlines said Ofwat
Of the total, for wastewater £104.5m
Of the total, for dividends £18.2m
From public records Environment Agency
Enforcement actions since 1999 91
Largest single fine, 2017 £19.8m

Sources for the figures above: Ofwat Environment Agency

Outlets that ran this story: BBC News ITV News The Telegraph LBC The London Economic Envirotec New Civil Engineer

The cost Verbose articles from multiple outlets, dispersed and biased, missing critical context you want to know.
The gain One concise story, the relevant context almost nobody printed, and every outlet one tap away.

Four lenses

Lumen doesn’t write the news. It reads all of it, and tells you what the coverage left out.

  • Public records

    Who’s connected?

    Filings, registers of interests and donation records, attached to the story that mentions them.

    “Andy Burnham - £30k in donations received in the year to June 2026, from 4 donor names.”

  • Timeline

    How did this unfold?

    Dated milestones from one organisation’s public record, drawn to true scale.

    “Thames Water - £19.8m of £39.7m in fines is a single 2017 case.”

  • Volume

    How widely reported?

    How many outlets ran a story, and how many usually do.

    “Covered by three outlets - more than this topic usually draws.”

  • Framing

    Who called it a crisis?

    How many outlets on a story used a term like “climate crisis”, and how many did not.

    “One outlet in seven called it a climate crisis.”

Context cards

A number you can’t check is just a claim.

Every figure on a context card comes from the register that publishes it, or from Lumen’s own count of the coverage - and the card says which.

Public records · live card

Andy Burnham - £30k in donations received in the year to June 2026, from 4 donor names

The Guardian · 14 Aug 2026

Largest 3 of 4 donorsYear to Jun 26

FBU2 entries · 33%£10k

Shalina Arora1 entry · 33%£10k

CWU1 entry · 17%£5,000

All 5 entries, 4 donor names£30k

Latest entry on the register: 1 June 2026. Totals are Lumen’s sum over our copy of the register.

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  • Sourced

    Every card names the register, or the count, that its figures came from.

  • Named

    Every story names the organisation that reported it, and links to the original.

  • Correctable

    Lumen re-checks each register. Spot a figure we’ve missed and you can flag it in the app - no account, no name.

Inside a story

One page per story, with the record attached.

A story in Lumen is one page: the outlet’s own words, the outlets that ran it, and - where the record has something to say - the register entry, in line.

The claim and the record, together

The record opens inside the story, between the paragraphs. You don’t leave the page to check it.

Named, and linked

Lumen names the organisation that reported it and links out. You read the full article on their site, not in a copy of it.

Say what you think, sign nothing

Readers weigh in on the question the story raises - no account, no name, no replies to moderate.

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