In February, a High Court judge sanctioned a plan proposed by the parent company of Thames Water Group allowing the utility to stay afloat.

Grant Gilchrist refuses to ponder international retirement because he remains convinced Gregor Townsend’s Scotland are on the cusp of something “really special” despite another underwhelming Guinness ...

Former senior executives at the Countess of Chester Hospital have asked for the public inquiry into the events surrounding the crimes of Lucy Letby to be suspended.

A former senior director said the water firm could collapse soon without a funding deal, which would bring it under temporary state ownership.

The Financial Conduct Authority said Mr Odey ‘repeatedly sought to evade and obstruct efforts to hold him to account’.