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marketscreener.com | Sarah Young
LONDON (Reuters) -Thames Water suffered a major setback in its fight to avoid nationalisation on Tuesday as it said U.S. private equity firm KKR had pulled out of a multi-billion pound rescue plan. Britain's biggest water supplier has been pushed to the edge by its 18 billion pound ($24.35 billion) debt pile, and was banking on KKR investing about 4 billion pounds in new equity to effectively buy the company.
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sg.finance.yahoo.com | Sarah Young
Sarah Young Tue, 3 June 2025 at 1:09 am GMT-5 2 min read By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -Thames Water said U.S. private equity firm KKR had pulled out from a multi-billion pound rescue plan, reigniting fears that Britain's biggest supplier will need to be nationalised to avoid financial collapse. The company has been pushed to the brink by its 18 billion pound ($24.35 billion) debt pile, and was banking on KKR investing about 4 billion pounds in new equity to stabilise its finances.
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2 weeks ago | 
reuters.com | Sarah Young
LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Thames Water, at the centre of a public backlash against Britain's privatised water industry, has halted a bonus scheme for its executives after ministers objected to the payouts. The company, which is Britain's biggest water supplier with 16 million customers, has been struggling with billions of pounds of debt. Sign up here.
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2 weeks ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Sarah Young |Ian Vogler
British police on Wednesday charged a third man, a Ukrainian national, with arson offences over fires at properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. On five days earlier this month, police were called to fires at a house in north London owned by Starmer, another at a property nearby where he used to live, and to a blaze involving a car that used to belong to the British leader.
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2 weeks ago | 
sg.finance.yahoo.com | Sarah Young
Sarah Young Wed, 21 May 2025 at 2:13 am GMT-4 2 min read In this article: By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -British sportswear retailer JD Sports posted a 2% fall in first-quarter sales and warned that higher prices in its key U.S. market from President Donald Trump's tariffs could hit customer demand, sending its shares down 6%.
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wisconsinrapidstribune.com | Sachin Ravikumar |Sarah Young
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will take control of the whole of Gaza. Sachin Ravikumar and Sarah YoungReutersIsrael has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March and international experts have warned of looming famine. Israel's offensive "is incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relationship," British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told lawmakers.
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usatoday.com | Sachin Ravikumar |Sarah Young
• Israel has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March and international experts have warned of looming famine. • Israel's offensive "is incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relationship," British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told lawmakers.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Sarah Young
latest | UK pauses trade deal talks with Israel, summons ambassador over new Gaza offensiveUK Foreign Secretary David Lammy leaving number 10 Downing Street today after a Cabinet meeting. (Ben Whitley/PA Wire)The UK has suspended trade deal talks with Israel, sanctioned West Bank settlers and summoned the country’s ambassador as the relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government deteriorates.
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timeslive.co.za | Sachin Ravikumar |Sarah Young
British police said a Romanian national was charged with arson offences on Tuesday, the second man to be charged in an investigation into a series of fires at properties linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Police were called to a blaze at a property belonging to Starmer in north London earlier this month. No one was injured, but the entrance to the home was damaged.
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timeslive.co.za | Sarah Young |Michael Holden
20 May 2025 - 09:05 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Football presenter Gary Lineker outside his home in London after resigning from the BBC after 25 years of presenting Match of the Day Monday. Gary Lineker, a former England football captain who became the face of the sport on British TV, will leave the BBC after apologising for sharing a social media post about Zionism that drew complaints over anti-Semitism.
