7 h. ago The 14 rivers set to be cleaned up with funding from £3.3 million of Thames Water fines

More than £3.3 million of penalties handed to the capital’s water company between April 2022 and October 2023 are now funding river schemes across the city

Economics

36 h. ago Thames Water lenders submit new rescue plan to avoid nationalisation

The London & Valley Water group of creditors has outlined plans to write off around £4 billion, or 25%, of the debt they hold in Thames Water.

Events

38 h. ago Thames Water creditors offer to write off £7.5bn in debt to prevent collapse

The senior creditors of Thames Water have proposed writing off £7.5billion worth of the embattled utilities debt pile in efforts to prevent the group's collapse.

Economics

38 h. ago Thames Water lenders propose new rescue deal to prevent collapse

London & Valley Water hope to eventually float Thames Water on the stock market after turning around the firm’s fortunes.

Events

3 d. ago Thames Water scheme to cut bills for low income homes in London

Thames Water scheme to cut bills for low income homes in London  BBC

Politics

1 week ago Thames Water is failing to protect the river it is named after

Thames Water is failing to protect the river it is named after  HamHigh

Events

3 w. ago Mark William Lewis: Mark William Lewis review – A24’s first musical signing’s cinematic south London scenes

(A24 Music)Haunting harmonica and poetic banality add to the Londoner’s spookily sonorous baritone to create a hypnotically familiar yet ineffably fresh albumFilm and TV powerhouse A24 bridges the gap between the cutting-edge and the commercial: their content dominates the cultural conversation, often with help from amusingly gimmicky merch (the Midsommar incense burner, the Uncut Gems basketball). Judging by their in-house record label’s first signing, this isn’t a model they’re bringing to their music ventures: it’s very hard to imagine the gritty, lugubrious, bathos-steeped tunes of south-east Londoner Mark William Lewis lassoing the zeitgeist, let alone lending themselves to a quirky product tie-in. (A vial of filthy Thames water, perhaps?)Yet one spin of Tomorrow Is Perfect, the lead single from Lewis’s second album, and it’s instantly obvious why any corporate arbiter of cool would trip over themselves to sign him. An exquisitely beautiful dirge that unites the Durutti Column’...

Culture

3 w. ago Five million wet wipes cleared from disgusting 'island' in Thames — as false teeth and trousers also found

Diggers scooped up wipes, towels, scarves, trousers, a car’s engine timing belt and a set of false teeth from the river foreshore in west London

Politics

3 w. ago The best and worst performing water companies revealed by watchdog

Household complaints to the Consumer Council for Water have surged to a nine-year high

Politics

3 w. ago Our charity could have lost thousands due to Thames Water delay

It took a year and a half after we paid for installation for the company to connect our refurbished propertyI work for a charity providing affordable sheltered housing for older people. In January 2024, we began refurbishing a building that was bequeathed to us.We paid Thames Water to connect a water supply in February 2024. It wasn’t until November that it informed us that it would need permission from Transport for London (TfL) to close part of the road. Continue reading...

Politics