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
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.
Spy Cops Inquiry: an Undercover Officer Used Me to Rise to the Top of Our Movement novaramedia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from novaramedia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Bethany Rielly
SPECIAL branch kept tabs on journalists seeking to publicise how campaigners exposed a police spy who infiltrated protest groups in the 1970s, a public inquiry heard today.
Undercover officer Richard Clark spied on the Troops Out Movement (TOM), a campaign calling for British soldiers to be withdrawn from Northern Ireland, and quickly rose through the ranks. For a period of several months he even headed the entire movement.
Clark, who used the cover name Rick Gibson, later moved on to infiltrate revolutionary group Big Flame, but campaigners grew suspicious of him and launched an extensive investigation into his background.
Special Branch had file open on John Lennon, spy cops inquiry hears
The public inquiry into undercover policing heard some shocking evidence this week
09:39, 2 MAY 2021
Beatles legend John Lennon was mentioned in the Undercover Policing Inquiry (Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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