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...But shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has already ruled out using PFIs....
...Need to know: business Troubled UK utility Thames Water promised to spend an extra £1.1bn to combat environmental issues such as sewage spills....
...Thames has a “strict, performance-linked dividend policy monitored by Ofwat,” it added....
...The parent company of Thames Water, Britain’s largest water utility, has officially defaulted on its debt, firing the starting gun on a potentially messy restructuring....
...The US has its “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks, Japan has its “Seven Samurai” and Europe has the “Granolas”: GSK, Roche, ASML, Nestlé, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L’Oréal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP and Sanofi....
...Today’s top stories UK government ministers are on standby for the collapse of Thames Water, the country’s biggest water utility, and considering options that include the temporary nationalisation of the...
...At a hearing of the House of Commons environment select committee on Wednesday, Labour MP Darren Jones invited Ross to apologise for what he said were the regulator’s shortcomings under her leadership....
...Thames Water, the troubled UK water utility, fell short of its £1bn funding goal, getting agreement from its investors for £750mn of new equity....
...Troubled Thames Water co-chief Cathryn Ross came under fire in parliament over her former role as head of the water watchdog....
...The FT’s leader “England’s ill-fated experiment with privatising water” (FT View, July 1) rightly points out that Thames Water privatisation was bungled and has resulted in a first-class mess....
...The crisis at Thames Water could deter foreign investment in the UK, ministers and industry figures warned, as the company tries to raise at least £1bn to shore up its finances....
...During the Great Frost of 1740, while the Thames froze, Handel was not idle....
...Thames is a specially problematic case....
...A new survey found the UK’s estate agents at their most gloomy since 2009, with many houses being sold for below their asking price.The head of L&G, one of Britain’s largest insurers, bemoaned the “perpetual...
...I’m taking a turn in the DT chair while Darren continues a well-deserved end-of-year break....
...Job moves Thames Water has appointed Chris Weston, former head of power supplier Aggreko, as chief executive....
...The new building, just off Thames Street and overlooking the International Yacht Restoration School, fits in seamlessly with the rest of the 18th- and 19th-century waterfront; it has a bar, Studio Bar, that...
...L’affaire Raac? Raac-gate?) continues to cause a political headache for the government....
...It’s also the first big acquisition spearheaded by Exxon chief Darren Woods....
...Advertisers, including big brands such as L’Oréal, General Motors and Mondelez, have also got the jitters over Musk’s plans to relax controls of content, fearful the platform will be swamped by a wave of...
...Website; Directions— Tim Auld L’Atelier Robuchon 6 Clarges Street, London W1J 8AE A particular joy in Paris is to sit at the counter of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, watching in...
...It’s another sign of the eye-watering prices buyers are willing to pay for top-shelf beauty brands, after L’Oréal shelled out $2.5bn for minimalist soap maker Aesop in April....
...“We shouldn’t give up on DB because the average duration is still 15 years,” says Nigel Wilson, chief executive of L&G....
...“Will l be allowed to have a cleaner, or a driver? . . . We don’t understand how to survive,” he says, interviewed by the FT in his penthouse in St James....
...Last year’s opening of Bremont’s £20mn production and technology centre, on the outskirts of Henley-on-Thames, was designed to make a statement: British watch manufacturing is back in the UK....
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