Good afternoon. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay nearly £158 Million to their customers. The Regulator Ofwat says its because the firms have failed to meet performance targets such as cutting Sewage Spills and leaks. Some future Water Bills will be reduced to reflect the missed targets. Our Environment Correspondent Jonah Fisher reports. A warning this report contains flashing images. This Report Card does not make pleasant reading for the Water Companies. Targets for reducing leaks are not being hit, the number of Pollution Incidents has hardly changed in the last five years and Customer Satisfaction has continued to fall. Three Water Companies anglian, southern and welsh are rated bottom of the class. The others are just average, with none rated in the top category. So we think the sector suffers from a culture of poor performance, that companies are not taking responsibility for their performance. They are too often blaming the weather or the circumst
Anglia, certainly warming up. High pressure stays with us through the weekend and into the start of next week, deflecting all of these Weather Fronts to the north and the wet so temperatures will certainly rise and it is looking mostly dry and settled. Here is the outlook for the capital cities. Thats it. Now, lets join our colleagues for the news where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday this Friday Night. Im chetan pathak. Coming up on the programme. Fast start from the Usa Europe have work to do in virginia if theyre to to retain the Solheim Cup well bring you the latest. Laid to rest former England Manager sven goran eriksson s funeral is held in sweden. Four and a half hours until the Womens Football Transfer window closes well bring you up to date with the big moves so far and those yet to be completed. Also coming up on sportsday before 7. Davis Cup Defeat for draper Great Britain are stunned by argentina in manchester. And the World Number 0nes against the world champions e
Smiles. That was a masterclass from england and it leaves them one game away from the grandslam. Next week they travelled to france with a six consecutive title very much in their site. Joe curry, bbc news, twickenham. Scotland one in italy for the first time the century,. Scotland scoring two tries in the second half. Emma orr and Chloe Rollie got the crucial scores. This Rollie Try ended up being the difference. Its a second six nations win for them, and goes some way to help them qualify for next years world cup. Catalans dragons are back on top of the Superleague Table after thrashing Hull Kr by 36 points to 6 in france. Dragons put their Challenge Cup Defeat to huddersfield behind them and ran in seven tries. Tariq sims with the last score. Hull kr remain fifth. Elsewhere, warrington beat leigh, and London Broncos Lost At Home to salford. Willie mullins is on the verge of becoming the first irish trainer to win the Ukjumps Title for 70 years. Mullins has had an extraordinary seaso
In the second half, including this from full Back George Hendy to complete a 40 17 win at home. Catalans dragons are back on top of the Superleague Table after thrashing Hull Kr by 36 points to 6 in france. Dragons put their Challenge Cup Defeat to huddersfield behind them and ran in seven tries. Tariq sims with the last score. Hull kr remain fifth. Elsewhere warrington beat leigh. London broncos lost at home to salford. Willie mullins is on the verge of becoming the first irish trainer to win the Ukjumps Title for 70 years. Mullins has had an extraordinary season. And after winning the grand national at aintree. Did the same in the scottish national yesterday. It was a close run thing. Macdermott taking it in a photo finish. The season officially concludes next week. Going into the final day of the World Rally in croatia, toyotas elfyn evans came second best in a head to head battle with the championship leader
Catalans dragons are back on top of the super League Table after thrashing Hull Kr by 36 6 in france. Dragons put their Challenge Cup Defeat to huddersfield behind them and ran in seven tries. Tariq sims with the last score. Hull kr remain fifth. Elsewhere warrington beat leigh. And london broncos lost at home to salford. Willie mullins is on the verge of becoming the first irish trainer to win the Ukjumps Title for 70 years. Mullins has had an extraordinary season. And after winning the grand national at aintree did the same in the scottish national yesterday. But it was a close run thing. Macdermott taking it in a photo finish. The season officially concludes next week. Swedens Mondo Duplantis beat his own Pole Vault World record at the Diamond League Meeting in china. Duplantis, the reigning olympic, two time world and European Champion sailed over 6. 2a metres to improve by 1cm his previous best set in oregon last year. This latest World Record is the eighth of his career. I think