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"He came down with this battered old Telecaster and played the best solo I’ve ever heard in my life": The debauched story of the Britrock classic made perfect by the last guitar solo from a legend

All the elements of the classic rock'n'roll lifestyle fed into a storming tune about a crazy ex-lover

Louder

Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban

Utility admits parent company paid CEO Ruth Jefferson and CFO Andy Pymer but denies bonus payments

The Guardian - UK

Former Wessex Water boss received £170,000 bonus despite ban on performance pay

Company owners say bonus was unrelated to water business and complied with ban after pollution conviction

The Guardian - UK

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Duchess Sophie’s favourite tiara hasn’t always looked like that - it has a hidden trick

The Duchess of Edinburgh has worn the Wessex Aquamarine Tiara a staggering number of times, but in different ways

Woman & Home

Investors stripping cash from water firms ‘criminal’ says ex-Wessex Water chief

Campaigners and experts debated on whether utilities should be nationalised as ministers seek to ‘reset’ the failing sector.

Evening Standard

Water firms would be foolish to increase salaries to get around bonus ban – Reed

Six firms have been banned from paying bonuses to senior bosses under new rules that came into force on Friday.

Evening Standard

“I stood there thinking: ‘He’s not going to drive the tractor into the swimming pool, surely?’ And he did”: The insane story of The Wildhearts’ Earth Vs The Wildhearts, the cult ’90s classic that should have been huge

How cult British reprobates The Wildhearts made a masterpiece in Earth Vs The Wildhearts

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"I remember listening back to that and thinking: What the hellis this?!": Behind the scenes at the recording of King Crimson's trailblazing In The Court Of The Crimson King

Tales of the first true progressive rock album, from two of the men who made it

Louder

‘It’s just raw profiteering’: the people refusing to pay their water bills in response to the sewage crisis

People across England and Wales are refusing to pay for water companies to dispose of sewage after sharp increases in spills

The Guardian - UK

Wessex Water’s TV ad banned for omitting sewage record

Advert trumpeting storm overflow plans should have disclosed past environmental harms, says ASA

The Guardian - UK

Investigate hundreds of illegal ‘dry’ sewage spills by water companies, ministers told

An immediate investigation must be launched into reports that three major water companies illegally discharged sewage hundreds of times last year, ministers were told on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Good Energy completes acquisition of solar installation business

The Wiltshire-headquartered company has acquired the entire issued share capital of Wessex EcoEngery

Birmingham Post

Packaging firm near Bristol acquired by larger South West group

Surepack in South Gloucestershire has been bought by Somerset-based Wessex Packaging

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