but, in the next few days, he ll doubtless face new demands to take a long, hard look at the state of french society. tom symonds, bbc news, paris. thames water will appear in court for sentencing today after admitting charges relating to polluting rivers. the court earlier heard how millions of litres of undiluted sewage caused rivers to turn black and kill more than 1,000 fish near gatwick airport in october 2017. facebook owner meta says it will be launching its own app to rival twitter this week. threads is a text based conversation app that will go live on thursday, according to the company, and will be linked to instagram. plans for the orkney islands to change its status within the uk or even become a self governing territory of norway are set to be debated by councillors today. a motion will go before the local authority to investigate alternative forms of governance. but the prime minister s spokesperson rejected a suggestion
siml do not. . ~ ,, , . thames water will appear in court for sentencing today after admitting charges relating to polluting rivers. the court earlier heard how millions of litres of undiluted sewage caused rivers to turn black and kill more than 1,000 fish near gatwick airport in october 2017. facebook owner meta says it will be launching its own app to rival twitter this week. threads is a text based conversation app that will go live on thursday, according to the company, and will be linked to instagram. a judicial review of the planned expansion of london 5 ultra low emissions zone is due to begin at the high court this morning. the mayor of london insists the move is needed to improve air quality and prevent premature deaths. but five conservative led councils have launched legal action over the expansion, saying the scheme would have a massive financial impact on motorists. in the last few minutes, sainsbury s has announced its latest results. ben has the details. sainsbury
a judge for sentencing today after admitting charges relating to polluting rivers. the court earlier heard how millions of litres of undiluted sewage caused rivers to turn black and kill more than 1,000 fish near gatwick airport in october 2017. britain s second biggest supermarket sainsbury s has announced its latest results this morning. ben has the details. sainsbury s is the uk s second largest supermarket ? these results tell us a lot about how rising food costs are affecting us and how we shop. they show that between april and june overall sales were up by 9.8% compared with the same period the year before. drill down and you find that was driven by grocery sales up 11% in that three month period. and with high food prices ? people are turning to own brand, cheaper options. sales of those grew by 13%. supermarkets across the board have come under pressure to do something about rising prices.
and there are serious questions about its future, as it is billions of pounds in debt. 0ur environment correspondent, jonah fisher, has more. a stretch of river near gatwick airport once popular with local anglers. full of dead fish. this was the aftermath of the sewage spill in october 2017. investigators counted more than 1400. the realfigure is likely to have been much higher. the fish died when raw sewage was pumped out of this water treatment facility. it was a mistake but in court the environment agency listed a catalogue of errors thames water had made both before and after the spill. warning signs were ignored, infrastructure was inadequate and, infrastructure was inadequate and, in the days after the incident, britain s biggest water company deliberately misled investigators.
only by neighbouring forces and the regulator. the home office, however, says action is being taken and progress is being made. it says intelligence gathering on serving officers is being strengthened as is the vetting of new recruits. all right, thank you now. thank you. thames water has been fined more than £3 million for dumping millions of litres of undiluted sewage into rivers near gatwick airport. the judge said she believed thames water had shown a deliberate attempt to mislead the environment agency about the incident. our environment correspondentjonah fisher is in cardiff. explain more about this case. yes, this was a sentencing explain more about this case. 1&1: this was a sentencing hearing that has just come to its end. as you said, £35 million fine for thames water connected to what the court was told was a significant and lengthy period of pollution into gatwick s stream in west sussex and surrey in october 2017. the court was told that the sewage most likely