5 d. ago Body found in search for missing girl who disappeared in River Thames

Emergency services raced to the scene on Friday afternoon following reports that two children had gotten into difficulty in the River Thames.

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5 d. ago Body found in search for missing girl in River Thames as boy remains in hospital

Emergency services were called on Friday after reports that two children had got into difficulty in the water

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5 d. ago Thames missing girl: Body found in search for child who disappeared in river

Emergency services rushed to Gravesend on Friday afternoon following a report that two children had entered the river and gotten into difficulty near the Royal Terrace Pier

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6 d. ago Search suspended for missing 'Romanian girl, 9,' who vanished in Thames in front of parents

Lifeboats and coastguard helicopters have spent the afternoon looking for the girl who vanished near the Royal Terrace Pier at Gravesend, Kent, in front of her parents.

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6 d. ago Emergency services suspend search for missing girl in Thames

Two children got into difficulty in the water near the Royal Terrace Pier on Friday afternoon

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6 d. ago Hunt for missing girl who vanished in Thames on family day out

Emergency services rushed to Royal Terrace Pier at Gravesend, Kent, after a boy and girl got into difficulty in the River Thames at around 1.35pm.

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6 d. ago BREAKING Emergency services search for child reportedly missing in the Thames

Emergency services are searching the Thames river for a missing child

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6 d. ago Child missing in Thames as emergency services search with helicopter

Emergency services are searching the Thames river for a missing girl after they got into difficulty close to the Royal Terrace Pier in Gravesend - another child was rescued

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6 d. ago Child is missing in the Thames as RNLI, Coastguard helicopter and police boats launch major search

One child has been recovered from River Thames but the search continues for a second youngster, according to Coastguard officials.

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6 d. ago Thames search LIVE: Girl missing in river after kids get into difficulty in water

Coastguard officials said a boy has been recovered from the water, but a girl is still missing after receiving reports of two children getting into difficulty in the river

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6 d. ago Thames search LIVE: Girl missing in river after children get into difficulty in water

Coastguard officials said a boy has been recovered from the water, but a girl is still missing after receiving reports of two children getting into difficulty in the river

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2 w. ago BREAKING Emergency services attend popular beach in 'major incident' after body found

This is a breaking news story and is constantly being updated as the story develops

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2 w. ago Emergency services attend popular beach in 'major incident' after body found

Police and forensics have flocked to the County Down beach after authorities were alerted to a body being discovered, with members of the public urged to avoid the scene

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2 w. ago Emergency services on scene at Stirlingshire beauty spot after 'concern for person'

Roads are closed around Croftamie and the car park of the Devil's Pulpit has been closed to deal with an ongoing concern over a person.

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2 w. ago Thames Water: big bonuses due from emergency £3bn loan ‘withdrawn’

Environment secretary makes announcement after company’s chair said he ‘may have misspoken’ to MPsLarge bonuses due to be paid to Thames Water executives from an emergency £3bn loan have been “withdrawn”, the environment secretary, Steve Reed, said, after the Guardian revealed the chair of the company wrongly told parliament creditors had “insisted” on the payments.Reed told the environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) committee on Tuesday that the retention payment plan had been withdrawn by Thames Water. He said: “I am very happy indeed that Thames have now dropped those proposals. It was the wrong thing to do. They have now withdrawn their proposal to make those payments.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Thames Water chair says he ‘may have misspoken’ to MPs over bonuses

Sir Adrian Montague told select committee paying bonuses out of emergency £3bn loan was insisted upon by creditorsBusiness live – latest updatesThe chair of Thames Water has admitted he may have “misspoken” when he told a parliamentary committee that large bonuses to be paid to senior bosses out of an emergency £3bn loan were insisted upon by creditors.Sir Adrian Montague told the environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) select committee last week that the lenders “insisted” that “very substantial” bonuses of up to 50% of salary should be paid to company executives from the controversial loan in order to retain key staff. The proposed bonuses provoked fury as the company has said that its finances are “hair raising” and that it had come “very close to running out of money entirely” last year. Continue reading...

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