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
Enter the a team. Private eyes. There had been a brief encounter with a mysterious stranger. On the train coming home. She met this woman. Did that hold the answer . She is talking about how someone has tried to assume her identity. A chilling case of a daughter in danger. Strangers on a train. Hello and welcome to date line extra. She was beautiful. Talented and trusting and sometimes troubled. A young woman from a prem innoce prominent family. When the police were unable to find her. Her family hatched a plan. To solve the mystery. Heres keith morris son. It began in the great morning
A young woman disappears, and a chance encounter with a stranger on a train may hold some answers. Visa. A Paperwork Mixup sort of thing that would have sent her into a tailspin once, but now, the new kate vowed to try again later. Boarded the palmetto for charleston and once home threw herself into College Classes and a Childrens Book shed been writing. Big brother joe was, to say the least, encouraged
meanwhile, of course, as we all know, bills are creeping up. the water bill for an average household rose to nearly £a50 a year in april, and one report in the times suggests that could go up by as much as a0% in the future. for now thames water says supplies will continue as normal and that they have large financial reserves and are keeping the regulator 0fwat informed. worst case scenario, the company could be taken back into temporary public control, but it is far from clear whether it will come to that. we will talk about this a little later as well. hannah, thank you very much. it is 6.33. let s have a look at the sport. mike is at lord s ahead of the second day of the men s ashes second test. it s a fine setting, but these are tricky times for england. tricky times indeed. they need to fight back. it is a tricky day today, because if australia get an unassailable lead, they should have
they call it the palmetto, the train that glides down the eastern seaboard. eight hours from washington to charleston. fine setting to meet a stranger. sat in the same seat? sat in the same seat. laughed. were joking the whole way. started talking. heather kamp, freshly supplied with jewelry and cash from her last mark, just by chance found herself sitting with a young woman wearing jewelry and perhaps with access to such cash as heather had never seen before. what did you see in her? why did you like her? she was funny. very funny. now sitting here in jail, heather claimed she came to see kate not as her next victim but as a friend. and when in charleston she professed her love for kate s buddy, ethan mack, and then eventually married him, that love was true, too, so she says now. and when she told them both all those well-practiced lies about being a doctor, about her husband and child being killed
eastern seaboard. eight hours from washington to charleston. fine setting to meet a stranger. sat in the same seat? sat in the same seat. laughed. were joking the whole way. started talking. heather kamp, freshly supplied with jewelry and cash from her last mark, just by chance found herself sitting with a young woman wearing jewelry and perhaps with access to such cash as heather had never seen before. what did you see in her? why did you like her? she was funny. very funny. now sitting here in jail, heather claimed she came to see kate not as her next victim but as a friend. and when in charleston she professed her love for kate s buddy, ethan mack, and then eventually married him, that love was true, too, so she says now. and when she told them both all those well-practiced lies about being a doctor, about her husband and child being killed in an accident, et cetera, et