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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Callum Parke

Group of Thames Water creditors lose alternative restructuring plan bid

Thames Water was due to run out money in a matter of weeks before its restructuring plan was approved (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Archive)

An alternative plan to restructure Thames Water cannot be put to creditors for approval, a High Court judge has ruled, a day after he rubber-stamped a scheme proposed by the utility.

Mr Justice Leech said on Wednesday that there was “no reasonable probability” that convening meetings of creditors to approve the second plan, put forward by a group of the utility’s Class B creditors, would serve “any useful purpose”.

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