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John Collingridge

London

Business Editor at The Guardian

Business editor @guardian. Via The Sunday Times, Press Association, Yorkshire Post and Hull Daily Mail

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  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | John Collingridge |Anna Isaac

    Thames Water is asking to be spared billions of pounds of costs and fines over the next five years and heap more on to bills so it can attract new investors, the Guardian can reveal. The struggling water company is racing to find a buyer over the next eight weeks and is trying to persuade the regulator Ofwat to grant it significant leniency on penalties and extra costs, to attract bidders. That would mean customer bills rising by far more than the 35% it has been allowed.

  • 2 months ago | msn.com | John Collingridge

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 2 months ago | theguardian.com | John Collingridge

    Signs by the lifts in the Canary Wharf headquarters of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) remind staff not to talk about their work in public, given the billions of pounds resting on its decisions. But a very public debate is taking place about how the competition watchdog works and is run, with the Labour government determined to make an example of it.

  • 2 months ago | msn.com | John Collingridge |Heather Stewart

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 2 months ago | msn.com | John Collingridge |Heather Stewart

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

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John Collingridge
John Collingridge @jmcollingridge
14 Mar 25

EXC: Thames Water begs to be spared billions in fines and costs, warning bidders will walk away. Also tries to lean on regulators handling its appeal over bills. Asks Ofwat to go slow with CMA referral to avoid spooking investors. With @Annaisaac https://t.co/DGEjg8yNlU

John Collingridge
John Collingridge @jmcollingridge
12 Feb 25

RT @Feargal_Sharkey: Ofwat are utterly, utterly hopeless day 13,101. In early 2024 it was revealed that @thameswater was defaulting on the…

John Collingridge
John Collingridge @jmcollingridge
6 Feb 25

Rothschild & Co admits Sir Evelyn de Rothschild left the bank in 2004 after sexual misconduct complaint in late 2003. It follows allegations that the late banker sexually assaulted several women in the 1990s when they worked for the bank. By @Annaisaac https://t.co/oT882IhR5C