fights to prevent its collapse. ministers are drawing up contingency plans while the supplier looks to secure extra funding amid debts running into billions of pounds. celia hatton has more. the future of the uk s biggest water company is far from watertight. but the government is reassuring thames water s 15 million customers they won t lose access to water as work continues behind the scenes to try to rescue it from collapse. thames water is £14 billion in debt and in crisis mode after the surprise resignation of its ceo on tuesday. no clear reason has been given for sarah bentley s departure. ministers are considering a plan to bring the utility giant temporarily under public ownership if it can t sort out its debts. we need to make sure that thames water as an entity survives. there s a lot of work that the government is trying to do on resolving sewage. certainly, up until now, the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down, but there s a lot of infrastru
everything, to investigate the matter everything, to investigate the matter fully. but labour says mr zahawi s position is untenable and he should be sacked immediately. also tonight. the choice of richard sharp as chairman of the bbc is to be investigated following allegations that he helped organise a loan for borisjohnson shortly before his appointment. alexa, kitchen lights alexa, kitchen li-hts off. alexa, kitchen lights off. a scheme that pays households in england, wales and scotland to cut their electricity use in exchange for discounts on their bills has gone live for the first time. deux, trois, quatre, cinq. and coming up on the bbc news channel: everton s managerial merry go round continues frank lampard is sacked after less than a year in charge of the toffees. good evening. there are clearly questions that need answering about nahim zahawi s conduct. that s the prime minister s view about the colleague he appointed as chairman of the conservative party an
this september record breaking heatwave is set to continue and we ve provisionally had the hottest day of the year so far. and on bbc london. a nationwide manhunt continues for an escapee who broke out of wandsworth prison. we speak to a former inmate who knew daniel khalife. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a huge manhunt is under way for the former soldier who escaped from wandsworth prison yesterday morning. more than 150 officers and staff from the metropolitan police s counterterrorism unit are trying to track down daniel khalife, who was accused of gathering information for iran. he strapped himself under a food delivery van, still dressed as a prison chef. tonight, police say he has not been seen, but they have been giving more details about how he got out. we begin with our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. wandsworth prison this afternoon, the day after the infamous escape, and a clear view of the kitchen block and the short route to freedom
depending on where you are in the uk. thousands of people looking to get away. but a foreign break is likely to cost significantly more this summer. according to data from travel supermarket, holidays in some of the most popular countries are up by more than 20% this year. 0ur cost of living correspondent colletta smith is at manchester airport finding out how people are holidaying on a budget. it looks busy enough behind you, but people will be thinking twice before booking. yes, they certainly are. 0nly yes, they certainly are. only a couple of weeks ago, manchester airport said they had their busiest day since 2019, so despite those high flight costs and holiday costs associated with it, people aren t necessarily being put off going on holiday. what they are doing is thinking about how to trim their budget around the edges, when we are saying the cost of living crisis, money is squeezed throughout the year, people are wanting to hang
national grid s demand flexibility service has been implemented because of the cold weather and is meant to ensure that our demand for electricity doesn t exceed supply. 0ur cost of living correspondent colletta smith has the story. cara s getting the washing done early today and hoping to get a bit of cash in the process. she works for the nhs, and normally five o clock is the moment she gets home and the energy dial starts to whizz up. we have our tea, and then the dishwasher would go on, and then sometimes i might put the washer on when i come in, and then the dryer on through till when i go to bed. she ll get paid a few pounds by british gas for using less than normal between five and six tonight. i won t be using the oven, i won t be using the washing machine or the dryer or the dishwasher and not the telly. 0k, they re the big electricity guzzlers. and my son won t be at home to have the xbox on either! tara s family is one of nearly a million not cutting back