Exclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management Lenders vying to take over Thames Water have demanded that the struggling company and its management be granted immunity from prosecution for serious environmental crimes as a condition of acquiring it, the Guardian can reveal. Creditors want the environment secretary, Steve Reed, to grant the water company extraordinary clemency from a series of strict rules covering everything from sewage spills to failure to upgrade its water treatment works. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Managers and lenders racing to find a buyer want regulator to agree to leniency amounting to billions of pounds 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…

Exclusive: Several women claim City grandee exploited his position to harass or sexually assault them in the 1990s

Exclusive: Several women claim City grandee exploited his position to harass or sexually assault them in the 1990s

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