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
Bring some localised damage and disruption, gusts up to 75mph for a time. We start off with some sunshine across scotland and much of england, you will be wondering what the pot is about, but further west we have got the Heavy Rain Piling in. The winds really start to pick up in the afternoon with those damaging, disruptive gusts and there will be large, battering waves pummelling the coastline, of around four or five metres pummelling the coastline, of around four orfive metres high. Four or five metres high. Temperatures four orfive metres high. Temperatures about 15 22, breezy with just the occasional shower across east anglia and South East England. Going through wednesday night, the heavy rain and the strong winds for scotland and northern england, the last dregs of that system pulling out of the way. What follows on thursday, Another Band Of Rain Coming off the atlantic, this one has the remains of storm ophelia, which was affecting the us over recent days. It will be bringing so
The netherlands opened the scoring through a controversial Laker Mertens goal before Alessio Russo equalised. Alessia russo equalised. But rene jansson sealed the deal for the dutch with a dramatic 90th minute winner to hand england their third defeat under wiegman. It means england are third in group a1 after two games. There were mixed fortunes for the rest of the home nations. Scotland, who are also in englands group, are still bottom, despite sophie howards 94th minute equaliser getting them a late point against belgium, who topped the group on four points. Pernilla hader scored a hat trick as wales were outclassed by denmark. The Republic Of Ireland cruised past hungary and tanya oxton bs first home game in charge saw Northern Ireland beat albania. And there were seven games in the English Football League trophy on tuesday night. Current holders Manchester United got their Title Defence underway with a convincing 3 0 win against crystal palace, alejandro garde, Nacho Casimiro and
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