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Thames Water Utilities Holdings Limited is in around 16 billion pounds of debt Plans to restructure Thames Water have been approved by a High Court judge, just weeks before the struggling utility was set to run out of money. Thames Water Utilities Holdings Limited (TWUH), the parent company of Thames Water Group (TWG), England’s biggest water company with about 16 million customers, is in around £16 billion of debt and […]

Neath Port Talbot Council’s planning committee will meet on Tuesday evening Steel giant Tata’s plans for huge changes to steelmaking at its biggest plant are set to be approved by council planners. Neath Port Talbot Council’s planning committee is expected to give the go-ahead at a meeting on Tuesday evening to the way steel is produced at the South Wales site. Tata has closed blast furnaces and is switching to […]

The 52,888-capacity ground will become the Premier League’s seventh biggest A select band of Evertonians saw a glimpse of a bright, new future as the £800million project at Bramley-Moore Dock opened its doors for the first time and they went home happy – even after a defeat. More than two decades after the club pulled the plug on plans to relocate to the nearby King’s Dock, now the site of […]

A Delta plane crashed and flipped over on landing at Pearson International A Delta Airlines plane flipped upon arrival at Toronto’s Pearson Airport and ended up on its roof on Monday, injuring 17 people. The airport confirmed on X that an “incident” occurred with the Delta flight from Minneapolis and that 76 passengers and four crew are accounted for. The accident happened at about 2.15pm local time and flights at […]

A man has been sentenced to life in prison in India for the rape and murder of Irish backpacker Danielle McLaughlin in 2017, her family’s solicitor confirmed. Local man Vikat Bhagat, 31, was found guilty at the District and Sessions Court in south Goa on Friday. Ms McLaughlin, from Buncrana in Co Donegal, was found dead in a secluded spot in Canacona, an area of Goa popular with holidaymakers, in […]

Davide Sanclimenti said he has faced an “ongoing campaign of misinformation and targeted attacks” since leaving the Love Island villa. The 30-year-old TV star won the ITV reality series with Ekin-Su Culculoglu in 2022 and the pair had an off-on again relationship until breaking up again in January last year. In a lengthy statement posted to Instagram, Sanclimenti claimed he has experienced harassment online which he believes is a “deliberate, […]

Pope Francis’ respiratory tract infection is presenting a “complex clinical picture” that will require further hospital treatment, the Vatican said as concerns grow about the increasingly frail health of the 88-year-old pontiff. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the results of tests conducted in recent days and on Monday indicate the pope is suffering from a “polymicrobial respiratory tract infection” that has necessitated a further change in his drug therapy. Scientists […]

Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK and Europe are facing a “generational challenge” and “need to do more” after he said he was willing to put a peacekeeping force into Ukraine. “We’re facing a generational challenge when it comes to national security,” he told reporters in Bristol before he heads to emergency talks with European leaders in Paris. “Obviously, the immediate question is the future of Ukraine, and we […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country will not take part in US-Russia talks this week on ending the war and cannot accept the outcome of the summit if Ukraine does not participate. Speaking to journalists on a conference call from the United Arab Emirates, Mr Zelensky said his government had not been invited to Tuesday’s planned talks in Saudi Arabia. He said they would “yield no results”, given […]