Taxpayers must not be left to pick up a multi-billion-pound bill to bail out Thames Water, ministers warned the water firm's 'arrogant' bosses yesterday. After shareholders refused to hand over £ ...
Thames Water, which supplies about a quarter of the British population, was thrown into crisis earlier this year when its ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some lenders to Thames Water would lose up to 40 per cent of their money under government contingency plans ...
Thames Water’s leadership must “carry the can” for the company’s shortcomings and not pass higher bills onto consumers after successive management teams failed to invest enough, Michael ...
Representatives of Thames Water's multinational syndicate of shareholders are poised to quit as directors of its corporate entities after refusing to inject the billions of pounds of funding required ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thames Water must sort out its own financial problems, chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said, as he warned that ...
Beleaguered Thames Water is pushing for the right to increase charges by 56 per cent in a move that would raise customers' average annual bills to almost £700. Bosses have put the proposed hike ...
A resident in Caversham Heights has revealed that Thames Water have been parking on his road to drain sewage every day for ...
The £78bn payout is nearly half the £190bn the companies spent in the same three decades on infrastructure. When England’s water industry was privatised in 1989, we were told it would lead to ...
Thames Water is plotting to increase household bills by up to 45pc, as the troubled supplier pushes regulator Ofwat to sign off on plans to help it stave off collapse. The company, which provides ...
Thames Water is attempting to persuade the regulator to let it raise consumer bills by up to 44% over the next five years by increasing investment. The heavily indebted water firm aims to spend at ...