Good afternoon. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay nearly £158 Million to their customers. The Regulator Ofwat says its because the firms have failed to meet performance targets such as cutting Sewage Spills and leaks. Some future Water Bills will be reduced to reflect the missed targets. Our Environment Correspondent Jonah Fisher reports. A warning this report contains flashing images. This Report Card does not make pleasant reading for the Water Companies. Targets for reducing leaks are not being hit, the number of Pollution Incidents has hardly changed in the last five years and Customer Satisfaction has continued to fall. Three Water Companies anglian, southern and welsh are rated bottom of the class. The others are just average, with none rated in the top category. So we think the sector suffers from a culture of poor performance, that companies are not taking responsibility for their performance. They are too often blaming the weather or the circumst
English premier league is suspended a may not be finished due to coronavirus none of the stuff we see for Club Officials have met in london or goings or off until at least the start of a. Deadly mistake thats the warning from the World Health Organization to any country not moving to take tough measures against coronavirus it says europe is now the epicenter of the outbreak nations across the continent already imposing drastic new measures to contain the virus spain today declared a state of emergency from saturday allowing the government to confine people and to evacuate buildings elsewhere Security Forces are being deployed to clear the streets of iran in the next 24 hours more global sporting events have also been affected games in the English Premier League one of the worlds was watched competitions in any sport have been suspended until at least april while 2 more formula one races have been called off but theres also been some news perhaps on Global Markets tensions easing there
New york stock exchange. The u. S. china trade war taking a bite out of apple, now on pace for the worst day in over a week as the white houses 15 tariff on a new batch of goods goes into effect over the weekend obviously, a big story for the markets. Apple products expected to be hit this time around include the apple watch, air pods, the home pod, imax, and some beat headphones for more on where the stock may go from here, were joined by an apple bear, Pierre Ferragu has a sell on the stock, a 170 target. Also with us, apple bull, daniel flax, whose target is, daniel . Carl, i cant give you a specific target, but what i can say is that while the nearterm environment certainly remains sluggish with iphone and clearly theres a risk in terms of higher prices from tariffs impacting demand, we see a lot that we like over the medium term and i say that because the iphone install base is continuing to grow the company has opportunities to show additional growth with Newer Services like tv a
The 11th to perish on the mountain this season, after reports of overcrowding the hit series gavin and stacey will return to our screens for a Christmas Special later this year, almost a decade after it last aired. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im shaun ley. One of the conservative leadership contenders has warned that a no deal brexit would cause what he called political suicide for his party. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, said any such move would trigger a general election, risking the extinction of the tories. One of his rivals, the environment secretary michael gove, has pledged to allow eu nationals who were in the uk at the time of the referendum to apply for citizenship free of charge. The housing minister, Kit Malthouse, has become the tenth mp to join the race to succeed theresa may. He says the Leadership Campaign cannot be about the same old faces. Lets get more on this from norman smith, our assistant political editor. Hello. This one is shaping up nicel