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
england are currently 181 1. zak crawley went for a8, stomped off the bowling of nathan lyon. ben duckett is currently on 86. england trailed by 235. with only a few days to go until the start of wimbledon, a former world number one has announced that she s coming out of retirement. caroline wozniaki will make a return to the sport, but not in time for the grass court season. the dane took a step back from tennis in 2020 after a 15 year career that saw her win the australian open and be world number one on two separate occasions. the 32 year old retired after a dignosis of rheumatoid arthritis. she announced her return on social media, saying that she still had goals that she wanted to accomplish. in football, one of the biggest transfer deals of the summer is closing in after arsenal agreed a fee worth £105 million to sign west ham s england midfielder declan rice. it s arsenal s third bid for rice and the initialfee of £100 million would equal the british record that manc
in its asylum processes are corrected, removal of asylum seekers to rwanda will be unlawful. and scientists pick up shock waves from colliding galaxies. and damning report says that a police unit to infiltrated protest groups for four decade should have been disbanded. and scientists pick up shock waves from colliding galaxies. could it be the first evidence of giant black holes distorting space and time? sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. england are doing well in their reply after bowling australia out for a16 on the second day of the second ashes test at lords. stuart broad took the first of today s five wickets, trapping alex carey lbw shortly after play resumed. steve smith dug in for australia though, and reached his 32nd test century offjust 169 balls. it was left tojosh tongue to remove smith picking up his third wicket of the innings in the process. 0llie robinson then made sure they carried through their mome
england are currently 181 1. zak crawley went for a8, stomped off the bowling of nathan lyon. ben duckett is currently on 86. england trailed by 235. with only a few days to go until the start of wimbledon, a former world number one has announced that she s coming out of retirement. caroline wozniaki will make a return to the sport, but not in time for the grass court season. the dane took a step back from tennis in 2020 after a 15 year career that saw her win the australian open and be world number one on two separate occasions. the 32 year old retired after a dignosis of rheumatoid arthritis. she announced her return on social media, saying that she still had goals that she wanted to accomplish. in football, one of the biggest transfer deals of the summer is closing in after arsenal agreed a fee worth £105 million to sign west ham s england
the foundation has done. taking this idea of helping families who go through grief and do death well and turning it into a support system for families to prepare families for that awful eventuality when a parent finally departs. giving people a helping hand through it, as well as raising awareness and sharing knowledge on non smoking lung cancer. and a chance to raise some funds along the way. staying with cricket, the super sixes stage of the cricket world cup qualifiers is under way hosts zimbabwe are currently taking on oman in bulawayo. they have a perfect record in the qualifiers so far, winning all four games in the opening group stage. in football, one of the biggest transfer deals of the summer is closing in after arsenal agreed