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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 Independent UK

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

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

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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

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

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 Guardian - UK

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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Chalfont St Giles: why one of England’s best-kept villages absolutely stinks

The village has been voted the most shipshape in Buckinghamshire six times. But a terrible smell has forced it to withdraw from this year’s competition

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water accused of ‘chicanery’ over £150m dividend payment

Debt-laden utility urged to show greater transparency as it faces investigation by industry regulator Ofwat

The Guardian - UK

Will rising debt cause Thames Water to sink under a Labour government?

The crisis-hit utilities company could quickly spoil the post-election mood for whichever party wins next week

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water board approved £150m payout hours before funding U-turn

Exclusive: Ofwat to investigate circumstances around payment of dividend to intermediate parent company

The Guardian - UK

E.coli Warning Before UK's Henley Regatta

UK water quality campaigners warned on Friday of "very high E.coli" levels in the River Thames west of London, just days before rowers were due to take part in the Henley Royal Regatta.

International Business Times

High levels of E coli found at Henley days before international regatta

Water quality testing by campaigners shows levels up to 27 times acceptable limit for bathing as rowers told to take precautions

The Guardian - UK

How Tory neglect flooded Britain’s rivers with sewage

On a journey along the Thames – where fury at pollution has spawned a wave of local activism – it is clear that the decline of rivers is among this government’s worst legacies

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The Independent UK

Bather, beware: British beaches and rivers have a sewage problem. It has seeped into election talk

Britain has become notorious as a place where a casual swim could lead to an extended visit to the toilet, if not the hospital

The Independent UK

Dozens of triathletes left severely ill after swimming in River Thames

One triathlete was left throwing up blood in A&E after the Royal Windsor Triathlon in Berkshire on Sunday

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on water privatisation: end an experiment that has failed

Editorial: Labour should take lessons from the Netherlands, where public sector firms are funded by a state-owned bank

Evening Standard

Thames Water among six water firms sued for up to £1.5bn by billpayers over sewage discharges

Lawsuit could see payout against Thames Water of £159.1m if successful

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Can Labour clean up England’s dangerously dirty water?

Party has vowed to end sewage scandal if it wins power, but experts say it will have to act quickly and ambitiously

The Independent UK

Outrage as ‘tidal wave’ of sewage floods historic market town’s unique chalk river continuously for months

Exclusive: Water firm pumps sewage into river Misbourne, Amersham on 21 ‘dry days’ during nearly five month period

The Guardian - UK

In Tory England, the Lib Dems can smell revenge in the air – and sewage in the rivers

In these still largely prosperous rural heartlands, filthy water has become a surprisingly powerful symbol of national decline, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Work to clean up polluted wild swimming spots in jeopardy, campaigners say

Pressure groups warn of lengthy delays to river clean ups due to government red tape

The Guardian - UK

‘Gove saw the polls and realised he might lose’: Lib Dems hope to knock down Tory ‘blue wall’ in Surrey

Ed Davey’s party is seeking to win over disillusioned Conservative voters in the Surrey Heath seat of outgoing minister Michael Gove

Evening Standard

Couple left 'homeless' after their £1 million Chislehurst home flooded by raw sewage

Buster Price has slammed Thames Water’s ‘pathetic’ response

The Independent UK

‘We’ve had enough’: The quaint Surrey village ‘blighted’ by petrol leak contaminating drinking water

A leak at a village petrol station, believed to date back to 2016, is now causing havoc for residents and threatening local businesses, reports Andy Gregory

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