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Water customers face further bill increases after Ofwat gave five suppliers permission to raise charges to fund an additional £3.4billion of spending.Prime Minister Andy Burnham criticised water companies following the regulator’s provisional approval, saying households should not be expected to cover unnecessary costs.He said customers had “been asked to pay more for years” while pollution incidents remained high and leakage problems persisted, adding that “customers cannot be treated as a blank cheque”.Labour said it would explore ways to give the public greater control over the water sector and keep bills down.Mr Burnham said: “I understand why people are angry –…

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Sir Sadiq Khan has praised the development of London’s Cycleway network, as new data shows it is five times larger than it was a decade ago.The capital’s Cycleway network is now 450km in length after new routes were added, dwarfing the 90km worth of routes in 2016.Research from Transport for London shows that the Cycleway network is now longer than the entire Tube network and stretches farther than the distance from London to Paris.More than 1.5 million cycle journeys are now taking place across the capital every day as TfL and Sir Sadiq Khan work to improve road safety and…

A couple who drugged men seeking sexual services in order to steal from them have been jailed for killing two men and poisoning others.Adina Mihai and Madalin Dumitru admitted the manslaughter of Gary Mouat, 36, from Oxfordshire, and Malcolm King, 80, from Gloucestershire, in 2025 and 2024 respectively.The pair also each admitted two further counts of administering poison to surviving victims on the first day of their trial in June. Mihai and Dumitru were both sentenced to 17 years in prison at Oxford Crown Court.Mihai, who posed as a sex worker, and her partner Dumitru, arranged to meet men paying…

Handball’s loss was football’s gain as Baur chose a different sport to father Markus, who made 228 appearances for his country as he helped Germany to Olympic silver in 2004 and world championship gold in 2007.So far, Baur Jr has played for Germany at every level up to under-21s and will hope moving to Celtic helps him make the step up to the senior side.Moving to Scotland may seem an unusual choice given he had the opportunity of playing in his country’s top flight for the first time had he stayed with Paderborn, or moved to another Bundesliga club.Baur did…

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The mayor of Greater Manchester has said planning rules should be reviewed after complaints about warehouses being built close to people’s homes.Speaking on Radio Manchester’s Hot Seat, Bev Craig said she agreed with concerns raised by campaigners from the Astley Warehouse Action Group and questioned why modern industrial developments were being allowed closer to residential properties than traditional industry.The group was formed after the construction of large warehouses at Astley Business Park near Tyldesley.Residents have complained about the scale of the development, its proximity to homes and concerns over noise from future operations.During Thursday’s programme, campaigner John asked whether residents…

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