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
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there is an inquiry into the special demonstration squad. in the first report he is critical of the methods used by the squad, which included officers taking their children s names as part of their cover. he said the end result was not justified by the means used. with more on the background, gene kelly. london 1968, and a huge demonstration at the american embassy against the vietnam war. involved in gathering intelligence and uniformed undercover police unit, the special demonstration squad. forthe unit, the special demonstration squad. for the next 40 years, officers infiltrated left and progressive groups on a long term basis. passing back information to scotland yard and mi5. their targets included anti apartheid campaigners, including peter, now lord hayne, who went on to become a labour cabinet
infiltrate the political protest infiltrate the political protest groups between 1968 and 1982. it s the first phase of the inquiry and you can see we are waiting for this news conference but in the meantime, our home affairs correspondent explains more about this investigation. london, 1968 and a huge demonstration outside the american embassy against the vietnam war. involved in gathering intelligence and newly formed undercover policing of the special demonstration squad. for the next 40 years, sds officers infiltrated left wing and progressive groups and long term basis. passing back information to scotland yard and mr mis. information to scotland yard and mr m15. their targets included anti apartheid campaigners, including peter, now lord hayne who went on to become a labour cabinet minister. he is one of those who news. gave evidence to the first phases of public inquiry into undercover
sds officers infiltrated left wing and progressive groups on a long term basis passing back information to scotland yard and m15. their targets included anti apartheid campaigners, including peter, now lord, hain, who went on to become a labour cabinet minister. he s one of those who gave evidence to the first phase of the public inquiry into undercover policing. the inquiry head, the senior judge sirjohn mitting, is producing his first report today. another political activist, richard chessum, discovered that in the 1970s, he was befriended by a police spy. ifelt that he had betrayed us politically, but i didn t know until the mitting inquiry and all that s emerged in the inquiryjust how much personal details he had conveyed to m15 about me and also my friends and family. the inquiry opened in 2020.