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Oxford Coach Decries Thames Pollution Ahead Of Boat Race

Oxford Boat Race coach criticizes Thames pollution, raising health concerns and calls for action. E.coli contamination and sewage spills prompt worries for...

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Thames Water investors pull plug on £500m of funding amid standoff with regulator

Decision increases concerns about financial future of UK’s biggest water firm and increases prospect of nationalisation

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Michael Gove has ‘zero sympathy’ for ‘arrogant’ Thames Water in funding crisis – as it happened

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as minister says water company’s leadership has been a ‘disgrace’

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Thames Water 'teetering on the brink of collapse' as shareholders pull survival funding

An MP called for the firm to be put into special administration

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Regulators urged to act over water companies’ record sewage discharge

Government asked to put ‘people and planet before profits’ as analysis shows potential illegal discharging of raw sewage

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Water companies in England face outrage over record sewage discharges

Call for environmental emergency to be declared after data reveals 105% rise in raw sewage discharges over past 12 months

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The Boat Race 2024: E.coli outbreak leads to safety advice from organisers

Traditional celebration by some winning crews could be a thing of the past

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Boat Race organisers warn rowers not to enter water after E coli discovery

Boat Race organisers have issued new safety guidance for the race on Saturday, warning rowers not to enter the water and to cover any open wounds

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The fate of Thames Water hangs in the balance. So what are its options?

Troubled utilities firm at risk of running out of money by end of April or of cash crunch

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Put Thames Water into special administration, Lib Dems tell ministers

Party calls for firm to be wound up as it seeks shareholder bailout, higher bills and lower fines

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Water firms’ profits in England and Wales almost double since 2019, find Lib Dems

Party to call for measures to stop companies prioritising profit over environment at spring conference

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Wednesday briefing: How ‘unprecedented’ vet costs have made pets almost unaffordable

In today’s newsletter: As a watchdog says it will investigate ‘unprecedented’ complaints about the cost of owning a pet, here’s how prices got out of control

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‘I’ve seen solid waste float by’: Surrey riverside residents try to Stop the Poo

The sewage treatment works at Horley seem to be crumbling, much like owner Thames Water itself

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Come clean on secret taxpayer rescue plans for Thames Water, MP demands

Exclusive: Sarah Olney to press in parliament for details of scheme being drawn up in event of supplier’s collapse

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Thames Water refuses to contribute to £180million anti-pollution fund

The Government is reportedly ‘dissapointed’ in the company’s decision

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Thames Water accused of ‘misleading’ customers over level of debt payments

Britain’s biggest water company said just 3p in every pound that appeared on bills went to its lenders

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Thames Water absent from industry’s £180m anti-pollution drive

Ministers disappointed by decision of one of worst sewage dumpers not to join England-wide initiative

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Hundreds of thousands of Thames Water customers may be unable to pay bills from April

Prediction comes as Britain’s biggest water supplier battles to stabilise its finances

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Thames Water lobbying government to let it increase bills by 40%

UK’s largest water company also calls for dividend payouts and lower fines for breaches to avoid taxpayer bailout

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Bitcoin surges through $60,000 in biggest monthly rally since late 2020 – as it happened

Cryptocurrency buoyed by flows into new ETFs that track the value of bitcoin

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Oxfordshire housing development ‘should be blocked due to failing sewage system’

Environment Agency objects to plans for 1,450 new homes, saying Thames Water’s Oxford plant cannot cope with more demand

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Thames Water charged me for enough water to make 1m cups of tea

Even though the supplier acknowledges the problem, it hasn’t done anything

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Thames Water forecasts more leaks over next two years than predicted

Revision will pile further pressure on firm to invest in infrastructure amid anger over its sewage-dumping record

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Ofwat’s scheme to fine poorly performing companies ‘a gimmick’

Lib Dems dismiss plan saying water fines need to go to consumers rather than to the Treasury

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Ofwat orders Thames Water to produce turnaround plan over sewage record

Debt-laden firm had allowed rivers to become polluted and homes to be flooded with sewage, MPs hear

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