Themselves at home on the course with the traditional photocall. Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay customers a total of £114 million, after failing to meet key targets. The industrys regulator, ofwat, said that firms arent performing well enough on issues including leaks and reducing pollution. The money will be returned by reducing household bills. Our environment correspondent jonah fisher has the details. This is the Water Companies end of year report, written by regulator ofwat. It assesses their performance against a number of indicators such as plugging leaks, the quality of the water supply and whether they have managed to reduce the number of Pollution Incidents. For most of the 17 companies, it s not pleasant reading. There is no top of the class this year, with none getting the highest score. Ten were rated as average, and seven told they are lagging behind. Poor performance comes with financial conseque
Heres stav da naos. Good afternoon. A little more unsettled today than yesterday but you could almost still call this the calm before the storm, tomorrow will be very windy, this afternoon will be sunshine and showers. The storm tomorrow, storm agnes, is still out at the atlantic. We have a couple of Weather Fronts that have brought pretty heavy rainfall today and rumbles of thunder. It has almost cleared into the north sea but the next rain band is bringing heavy rain to Western Scotland and will continue to rattle north and east through the afternoon, becoming confined to the north of scotland. Elsewhere, sunshine and showers, most towards western areas, better chance of staying dry towards the east and south east where it could be up to 23 degrees. The showers rattle for a time this evening but will fade away, winds will turn lighter, clear skies across the northern half of the country, quite chilly in Scottish Glens but temperatures will rise across the south as the wind and cloud