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Thames Water boss steps down amid backlash over environmental record

Sarah Bentley had revealed she would forgo her bonus after criticism of utility’s discharge of raw sewage

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water boss Sarah Bentley resigns with immediate effect after three years in the job

Thames Water chief executive Sarah Bentley has announced she is quitting her job with immediate effect after three years in the role.

Evening Standard

Thames Water pipe leaks at highest level in five years, FoI reveals

Firm having regular meetings with environment minister after failing to meet targets to fix leakage rates

The Guardian - UK

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Yorkshire Water boss’s decision to forgo bonus labelled ‘hollow’ by union

Nicola Shaw, who made the announcement due to public anger over sewage in rivers, is in line for a windfall of more than £1m from her previous role

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water accused of ‘flimsy PR stunt’ over bonus as boss’s pay swells

Sarah Bentley lands £1.5m despite saying she would shun bonus amid criticism of water companies

The Guardian - UK

Cops 'lock down' site where Levi Bellfield claims body is buried amid ghoul fears

Access codes for the site have been changed after serial killer Bellfield confessed to murdering Elizabeth Chau in 1999 and burying her body there

Daily Mirror

Mum paid out £14k to 'cowboy builders' as she battled cancer

Georgina Schwan said she wanted to give her son a better home following her diagnosis. But she claims she has been left £14,000 out of pocket

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Single mum with cancer charged £14k by 'cowboy builders' and left with huge hole in wall

Georgina Schwan, 41, hoped to give her son a better home after being diagnosed with cancer during the Covid pandemic - but says cowboy builders left her £14,000 poorer

Daily Mirror

Thames Water has failed us for four months after a flood

A burst pipe in our street damaged our flat but we are still waiting for a repair

The Guardian - UK

Water chiefs not taking their mini bonuses? Hurrah for small mercies

Relying on a boss’s embarrassment is a bad way to structure performance pay at utilities

The Guardian - UK

Three UK water bosses give up bonuses after anger over sewage

Chief executives of Yorkshire Water and Thames Water and owner of South West Water decline payouts

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water bosses give up their bonuses after storm over sewage leaks

Thames Water’s chief executive says bonuses wouldn’t be right amid ‘unacceptable standards of service for our customers’

Evening Standard

England's 'most beautiful village' seen in all UK passports ruined by raw sewage

The picturesque town of Bibury in the Cotswolds is one of the most iconic images in the UK and features on the inside cover of all UK passports - but Thames Water has been pumping sewage into the water

Daily Mirror

River pollution becomes key issue in English local elections

Discharge of raw sewage is mainstream concern in first local elections since Guardian revealed scale of problem

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Evening Standard

OPINION - 769 toxic spills lasting 3,286 hours: the Thames in 2022

We’ve tried dumping sewage into the Thames before, it doesn’t end well. The Summer of 1858 was known as the ‘Great Stink‘, thanks to a combination of warm weather, untreated human effluence and industrial waste flowing into the river.

The Independent UK

Ed Davey brands releasing sewage into waterways ‘a crime against nature’

The Liberal Democrats released analysis of figures that show water companies released sewage into English streams for 14,162 hours last year.

Evening Standard

Sewage pumped into 31 London rivers for 7,000 hours last year

The Thames saw 769 toxic spills lasting a total of 3,286 hours — more than 136 days

The Guardian - UK

Lake or mistake? The row over water firms, drought and Abingdon’s new super-reservoir

A proposal for 150bn litres of storage in Oxfordshire is mired in controversy and distrust of a privatised water industry

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The Guardian - UK

‘Every river in this country is polluted’: how Feargal Sharkey got swept up by the clean water campaign

The former Undertones frontman was searching for a hobby and ended up an environmental campaigner. And he’s a man who can win an argument

The Guardian - UK

‘We live from month to month’: people in UK brace for April’s bill rises

Five readers tell of how they will be affected by jump in council tax, energy, water and telecoms costs

Evening Standard

Thames Water ordered to fix water leaks by Environment Agency

Lib Dems are also calling for urgent action on the ‘sewage crisis’

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water ordered to fix leaks before pumping millions of litres from rivers

Environment Agency tells supplier to rethink plans to tackle droughts by pumping water from Thames and Severn

The Guardian - UK

Never mind the H20: this scheme to move water from Severn to Thames could be the new HS2

England’s water woes have a solution. But trying to move vast volumes of water from west to east is not it

The Guardian - UK

Water firms focused on returns at expense of environment, say peers

Lords committee criticises Ofwat for failing to ensure firms invested enough in sewage network

Evening Standard

Water companies ordered to stop dividends if services don’t improve

Since being privatised in 1989, English water firms have paid dividends of more than £65 billion to shareholders

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