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The new Labour government has fully laid out its plans for the UK in its first king’s speech to parliament. There were 40 new bills in the speech, aimed at setting a clear agenda focused on growing the economy and improving living standards for working people. And yet there were…

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2024

Southern Water boss handed £183,000 bonus despite huge rise in bills

Award for Lawrence Gosden comes after criticism of business plan and attempts to increase bills by 73%

The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2024

Paying the price of water companies’ failures

Letters: Bill Kingdom on the two halves of the water privatisation story, and Chris Bolt on Ofwat’s water price review

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2024

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Thames Water owner to liquidate solar energy subsidiary amid debt crisis

Exclusive: solar developer Trinzic to voluntarily shut down as holding company seeks to recoup more than £25m

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2024

Thames Water hit with £39m of penalties after missing regulatory targets

Performance report shows debt-laden company missed 21 targets in areas from pollution to supply interruption

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2024

Friday briefing: What the crisis at Thames Water means for customers

In today’s newsletter: The UK’s biggest water company has faced fierce criticism after presiding over rising water bills and a sewage crisis – and now customers are facing a 22% increase in bills

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2024

Ofwat accused of showing ‘contempt’ to customers over water bill price rises

Politicians and campaigners condemn charging proposals, as regulator puts Thames Water into special measures

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2024

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Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2024

The best long-term plan for Thames Water is to get it back on the stock market

The discipline of being a listed company should mean an end to the days of ultra-high leverage and opaque corporate structures

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2024

OPINION - The Standard View: Biden must accept reality: he can’t win

It has taken actor George Clooney to articulate the truth that most Democrat political leaders won’t: Joe Biden must go. In an article in the New York Times, he said the Biden he met recently was not the Biden of 2010 — “he wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 202…

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2024

Thames Water placed in special measures due to ‘significant issues’

Ofwat says UK’s biggest water company will come under extra scrutiny as it faces prospect of restructuring or temporary renationalisation

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2024

Rise of £94 in water bills over five years is ‘bitter pill’, says chancellor

Customers in England and Wales to pay an extra £19 each year on average as firms raise money to tackle sewage and leaky pipes

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2024

Thames Water bills to shoot up by almost £100 over the next five years

The company has warned that it could run out of money by next May if it is not allowed to put up bills by 59%

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2024

Debt, sewage and dividends: the rising tide of Thames Water’s troubles

In the second part of our focus on the water industry, we chart the decline of one of the UK’s major utility companies, now on the brink of restructuring or renationalisation

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2024

Do not let Thames Water’s bondholders wriggle off the hook

Nils Pratley: Bondholders are hoping to escape intact if Ofwat is sufficiently generous with its increases in bills

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2024

Thames Water fails to complete 108 upgrades to ageing sewage works

Exclusive: Fears customers will end up paying twice for work needed in order to comply with legal pollution limits

Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2024

Thames Water blames climate change after sewage discharge into rivers doubles

Firm under fire as it admits huge increase in pollution as it pushes for 59 per cent bill hike and pays out £195million to shareholders

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2024

Rise in sewage pollution from Thames Water’s ageing treatment works

Incidents from sites and pipe network increased by 19 last year to 350 amid delays in investment, company says

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The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2024

Thames Water pays out £158m to shareholders despite £15bn debt and sewage leak failings

Thames Water says it has cash to last until May 2025 and if it fails to find investment, Sir Keir Starmer will face a decision on measures that would effectively see it nationalised

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2024

Dyson to cut 1,000 jobs in the UK; chancellor launches national wealth fund –as it happened

Rachel Reeves says ‘Britain is open for business and the work of change has begun’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2024

Thames Water to tap investors for funds as it will run out of cash by next June

Company is laden with £15.2bn of debt, up £1.3bn on the previous year, most of which could be added to the public purse

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2024

Poor state of Thames Water a ‘critical risk’ to UK, Starmer and Reeves told

Exclusive: Whitehall warns firm’s deteriorating infrastructure and £15.6bn debt pose urgent problem

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2024

Keir Starmer urged to act on water bill rises in England and Wales

Stephen Fry and other celebrities join unions and activists in calling on PM to launch review of water ownership

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2024

Thames, Tata, Shein – it won’t be business as usual for Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds

The new business secretary will have big calls to make within a few days of sitting down at his desk

The Conversation · Jul 5, 2024

The six most urgent problems facing the UK that Starmer’s new government needs to fix

Keir Starmer’s Labour party has won the UK general election in a landslide. Its huge majority should, in theory, give Starmer the clout to see through most of his political agenda. But in reality, the victory celebrations might prove short-lived, given the size of the challenges in front of him.

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