The government has begun drawing up contingency plans for the collapse of Thames Water amid growing doubts in Whitehall about the ability of Britain’s biggest water company to service its £14bn debt-pile. Sky News has learnt that ministers and Ofwat, the industry regulator, have started to hold discussions about the possibility of placing Thames Water
Month: June 2023
Human remains found in a California mountain area are those of British actor Julian Sands, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed. It is five months since the 65-year-old was reported missing in the Mount Baldy region of the San Gabriel mountains. Hikers found the remains on Saturday morning, with officials now positively identifying them
A man has been charged with murdering his three-week-old daughter with a crossbow, US authorities have said. The Broome County Sheriff’s Office said a New York man was arrested and charged on suspicion of shooting the baby with a crossbow bolt – apparently while she was in her mother’s arms. Police and emergency medical workers
More than 130 videos of the Wagner march on Moscow have been verified and reviewed by Sky News and the Centre for Information Resilience, making Saturday’s incident one of the most publicly documented of the Ukraine conflict. “Not since the opening days of Russia’s full-scale invasion have our investigators at the Centre for Information Resilience
Ukrainian forces have “highly likely” recaptured an area of territory occupied by Russia since 2014, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said. In a new intelligence update, British officials said small advances have been made east from Krasnohorivka near Donetsk, which sits on the old Line of Control. “Recent multiple concurrent Ukrainian assaults throughout the
The chief executive of London’s water provider has resigned with immediate effect after criticism of her £1.6m pay packet and the company’s environmental performance. Thames Water announced its chief executive Sarah Bentley was stepping down after less than three years in the role. The announcement comes just weeks after it was reported that Ms Bentley
Grime artist Stormzy and Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha are set to become the latest celebrities to own a non-league football team. They are part of a three-man consortium who will own AFC Croydon Athletic, a south London side who play in the ninth-tier of English football. The club announced contracts had been exchanged with
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has indicated he too will not be following recommendations on public sector pay rises, saying his party are set to “inherit a real mess” if they win the next general election. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has faced a backlash from opposition parties and unions after hinting he will not adopt
Pink was left stunned after a fan threw their mother’s ashes on stage while she performed in London. The singer was taken aback at the BST Hyde Park festival during a rendition of her hit Just Like A Pill. Fans had previously thrown gifts on stage for her, but the latest item sparked a different
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said the long-standing tensions between the Russian army and Wagner mercenary group, which staged a 24-hour mutiny at the weekend, had been mismanaged. In his first public remarks since he brokered a deal between the Kremlin and Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, which halted the group’s advance on Moscow, Mr Lukashenko
Intermittent fasting is just as effective as calorie counting for weight loss, a new study has found. Scientists from the University of Illinois Chicago looked at 77 adults who suffered from obesity in Greater Chicago from black or Hispanic backgrounds. In a study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers assigned the participants
A cleaner turned off a freezer at a university – leading to decades of research to be ruined, a million-dollar lawsuit has claimed. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute filed the lawsuit against a cleaning company, after one of its employees tried to stop an “annoying beep” by turning off the freezer. The New York-based institution used Daigle
TikTok has launched the ability for parents and guardians to filter out videos they don’t want their children to see. The feature is an addition to the app’s family pairing functionality, which allows adults to link their account to their teenager’s for control of settings like screen time limits. TikTok‘s users could already dictate content
Executives from the country’s biggest supermarket chains have defended their grocery prices but backed the idea of greater fuel transparency over claims customers are paying over the odds for both. The business and trade committee of MPs heard representatives of Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons deny any suggestion of food profiteering on their part as
There was “nothing” in Nicola Bulley’s medical records to suggest she was suicidal, her former GP has told an inquest into her death. Dr Rebecca Gray told the hearing at County Hall, Preston, that Ms Bulley had spoken to her about feeling a “low mood and anxiety” since 2018, later speaking of headaches, fatigue and
Singer Lewis Capaldi has announced he will be taking a break from touring “for the foreseeable future”, saying he is “still learning to adjust to the impact of my Tourette’s.” It comes after the star struggled during his set at Glastonbury Festival over the weekend, with fans in the crowd singing for him as he
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