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Bonus payments to water company bosses rise to £9.1m amid sewage scandal
Bonuses to water company bosses rose this year to £9.1m – despite record sewage discharges and financial woes at some utilities.Executives from English and Welsh water firms received a total of £9,126,858 in the 2023/2024 financial year, up from £9,012,777 a year earlier, according to analysis of company filings done by the Liberal Democrats. When …
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FirstGroup buys London coach firm Anderson Travel
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Transport giant FirstGroup has bought London coach firm Anderson Travel to boost its First Bus business.The deal – for an undisclosed sum …
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Hollywood Bowl grows yearly sales as consumers splash more cash per game
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Spice products recalled over fears of undeclared peanut traces
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Schools in Swinney’s constituency to close due to strike
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Schools in the constituency of First Minister John Swinney will be closed this week due to ongoing strike action.Trade union Unison called …
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NotebookLM: How Google’s AI-powered note-taking app ‘took off’ by adding audio
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.A previously little known Google-created AI research and note-taking tool has “really taken off” after it added an audio feature which turned …
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Doubts grow over Reaction Engines rescue deal with UAE fund
The prospects of a rescue deal being struck for a British hypersonic aviation pioneer appeared to recede this weekend when it emerged that talks with a Gulf-based state fund had stalled.Sky News has learnt that negotiations between Reaction Engines and the UAE’s Strategic Development Fund, the investment arm of the UAE’s Tawazun Council, about it …
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How the odd bet on football could cost you a mortgage
While having the odd bet on your football team to win at the weekend sounds like a bit of harmless fun, it could actually scupper your chances of getting a mortgage. Lenders have always been cautious when it comes to approving mortgages, but some brokers have noticed that even the odd gambling transaction is now …
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New life for former baths site as developers given go-ahead to build affordable homes
The site of a former swimming baths that has been left empty since its demolition in 2020 is set for a transformation into an affordable housing complex. Despite efforts by local swimming groups in the 2010s to save Denton Baths from closure, their campaigns were unsuccessful. Now, the facilities have relocated to Tameside Wellness Centre …
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UK banks to shed light on consumer confidence as cheaper mortgages hit market
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Engineering apprentice named youngest-ever Greater Birmingham Young Professional of the Year
An engineering apprentice has become the youngest ever winner of Greater Birmingham Young Professional of the Year. Santina Bunting took home the top prize at last night’s annual awards which celebrated achievement among the under 35s of Greater Birmingham’s business community. The 19 year old is part of the civil and ground engineering team with …
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Whitehall to deliver plan to mutualise crisis-hit Post Office
Ministers are exploring plans to hand ownership of the Post Office to thousands of sub-postmasters across Britain in an historic shake-up at the 364 year-old institution.Sky News has learnt that the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has asked BCG, the management consultancy, to examine options for mutualising the Post Office. The work is said …

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