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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 CorrespondentJonah 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 o ....
Breaking news from here in the uk. Opposition mps in parliament have failed to block Government Plans to cut Winter Fuel payments for millions of pensioners. A total of 348 mp5 backed the government, with 228 supporting the opposition motion. It means the government won the vote with a majority of 120. As a result, an estimAted 10 Million pensioners wont get the payments to help with their winter heAting. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, Vicki Young whos inside parliament in central lobby for us. In terms of the Reaction Youve had so far, and a breakdown of the numbers, is it any clearer who voted against or abstained he ....
Headwinds remain. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Annmarie Hordern, in for Francine Lacqua in london. Fall to 46. 2, the forecast was for 46. 7. Manufacturing pmi 54. 4, forecasted 53. This,e were expecting given what happened last month, and france and london, and they were just talking to anna about this. The risk to the Service Sector employmentek, 75 of in the eurozone, so the services are where things will be much softer. A bit of a friday feeling on the euro stoxx index, especially for banks and autos. We are poised for a weekly decline, the worst in a month. S p 500 futures have been drifting between negative and positive territories the entire morning. Eurodollar 118, a little bit from euro versus the dollar. That is your market check. Now lets get around the world with first word news in london with l ....
[ cheers and applause ] for the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions in the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening, and the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to governor dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable Death Penalty for the killer . No, i dont. I think you know i opposed the Death Penalty during all of my life. I dont see any evidence that its a deterrent. I think there are per and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. We have down so in my own state. Its one of the reasons why we have had the b ....