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...Rating agencies are also starting to take action. S&P this month downgraded Thames Water’s top-ranked class A debt to BBB-, the bottom rung of investment-grade, just one notch above junk....
...Monday’s report also called for bodies such as the National Infrastructure Commission, an executive agency that provides advice to the government, to be given a “broader remit and be less at the mercy of...
...HMRC on Tuesday said scaling back the helplines would encourage taxpayers to manage their affairs, or “self-serve”, online and allow the agency to focus support where it was most needed....
...Assured Guaranty could end up having to pay out to lenders if companies such as Thames Water and Southern Water default or fail to make interest repayments....
...The sector and its regulators — Ofwat and the Environment Agency — have been pilloried....
...It also means Vivendi, whose portfolio includes French pay-TV Canal+, advertising agency Havas and a stake in Telecom Italia, has more time to contemplate making a more radical change....
...Thames Water chief executive Sarah Bentley will step down and be replaced on an interim basis by finance chief Alastair Cochran and strategy director Cathryn Ross....
...Outside work, I’m enjoying listening to birds such as whitethroats out on the Thames marshes....
...“And I’m paying four times the price that I used to pay to have full insurance for the whole property.”...
...and ClearScore, the credit reference agency....
...governments are capable of when circumstances call on all groups to flex their agency and full capabilities....
...Britain’s coastal communities may have to be relocated because of rising sea levels and increased risk of flooding because of climate change, Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd said earlier this year...
...the National Crime Agency)....
...In the past two years, nearly 60 per cent of customers who bought homes in Battersea with Savills worked in either finance or insurance, the estate agency says....
...But the rating agency also upgraded its outlook for the Chinese economy and predicted that its growth potential would slow to 5 per cent by 2022, a far better outcome than the sudden crash and years of stagnation...
...Getting insurance was not a problem. So when he got the call from the Environment Agency at about 4pm on December 5 last year to warn him to prepare for flooding, he took it all in his stride....
...According to Environment Agency maps, large parts of the Thames valley are at high risk of flooding, as well as the north Kent coast between Gillingham and Whitstable and areas around the rivers Arun and...
...Further south, the Thames swelled and parts of London were breached. The London Underground’s Circle line was suspended and several Tube stations were closed. Has flood defence spending been cut?...
...In fields such as banking, architecture and insurance, it plays a leading role in the global economy....
...First, the government would guarantee all deposits, charging risk-based insurance premia....
...This week we shove insurance turnround guys Mark Wilson and Stephen Hester in the centrifuge and press the button: Distinguishing features?...
...The Environment Agency had 14 severe flood warnings in place on the Thames – meaning there was a danger to life – with alerts in Chertsey, Hurst, Colnbrook and Staines....
...That is likely to bring a steep rise in home insurance premiums, leading brokers have warned, as insurers try to recoup the costs of the clean-up....
...Outside of Egypt, perhaps the place most affected is Oxford, where dozens of businesses and other organisations are named Isis after the stretch of the river Thames on which the city is located....
...Mr Pickles said there was a high risk that the Thames, the Severn and the Wye would all break their banks within days....
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