Power after storm arwen. A Memorial Service for Police Sergeant matt ratana, shot dead in a Custody Centre in croydon last year. And the british socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, a close associate of the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, goes on trial in new york for Sex Trafficking. And coming up on the bbc news channel, it is official, the new man in charge at old trafford is ralf rangnick, as he is announced as the new interim boss of manchester united. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news at one. Six cases of the Omicron Coronavirus Variant have been detected in scotland, taking the total to nine so far in the uk. The scottish and welsh first ministers have written to Borisjohnson Calling for tougher Travel Restrictions. Meanwhile, approval is expected to be given by the uks Vaccine Advisory Body later today for all adults to have boosterjabs. Theyre currently being offered to the over 40s, front line health and social workers, and those with Certain Health issues. From tomorrow,
has to provide drinking and waste water and it does not have any competitors, but as you say, it has amassed debts of £14 billion over the years and this has to be serviced. it costs the costs are rising because of inflation. interest rates are rising. cost of servicing the debt has gone up. and also, it has to pay each year in investment, it is under fire for leaky pipes, sewage flowing into rivers, not meeting its performance targets, and of course hefty fines in the process. it needs to raise new money. it has already had half £1 billion from shareholders and it needs to raise in the region of another billion and it has a debt repayment coming up in the next year. it has to try and persuade its shareholders that this turnaround plan under the new ceo, sarah bentley, who left rather abruptly yesterday, that the plan is working, and for them to stump up and i think what has brought this story to the fourie is news that the government is looking at options. contingency p
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rishi sunak, now prime minister, then chancellor, had launched the eat out to help out scheme to get people back into restaurants and pubs over that first summer of covid in 2020. but he had not consulted them before launching that. clearly, they made it clear, they took something of a dim view of that. that was last week, that was the science, this week we are back with the politicians. today, starting this morning with sadiq khan, mayor of london, and we also have mayors from the north west of england, steve rotherham, liverpool, greater manchester, andy burnham, couple of elements there, remember, there were restrictions brought in on a hot dry basis initially in the autumn of 2020 to effectively try to play wacko mole as hotspots popped up. that then gave way to a more structured tiers system which was supposed to solve some of the regularities and standardise the procedure across the country. i suspect we will get into a lot of that, plus other questions like sadiq khan