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Water companies want to see higher returns for shareholders to ensure record investment into sewage infrastructure, pipes and treatment plants is delivered.

As Ofwat, the water regulator for England and Wales, prepares to announce its decision on how much customer bills will be allowed to rise by to fund tens …

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Joe Biden

The Daily Show

Back at his Monday night guest hosting perch on the Daily Show,

Jon Stewart

From weight loss jabs

to vibrating pills

Now scientists have overhauled the humble gastric balloon – producing a device that inflates and deflates to keep it effective for longer.

Gastric balloons have been around for …

South Western Railway will be the first train operator nationalised under the Labour government, ministers are expected to announce this week.

One of the UK’s biggest commuter services, which operates out of London Waterloo, it will be taken into public hands in May.

SWR is currently run as a joint …

MPs have voted narrowly in favour of introducing a proportional representation electoral system, in a move that will almost certainly not change the law but is nonetheless a symbolically significant moment for UK politics.

The vote on a Liberal Democrat bill calling for a PR system for UK parliamentary elections …

A van that which was stolen containing 2,500 pies has been found abandoned, although inquiries are continuing into the fate of its contents.

The Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks had appealed to thieves

to “do the right thing”

When the Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the presidential election on his third attempt in 2016, many saw it as a turning point.

The first person to unseat an incumbent, his historic win captured his compatriots’ frustration. Alleged corruption had ballooned under his predecessor, John Mahama: in one instance, …

South Korea’s National Assembly has voted to block an attempt by the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to declare martial law, leaving the future of his emergency measure unclear as protesters and armed forces gathered in Seoul.

There was jubilation outside the National Assembly building late on Tuesday night, as hundreds …

Filippo Turetta has been sentenced to life in jail for the murder of university student Giulia Cecchettin, whose brutal killing cast a grim spotlight on femicide in Italy.

Cecchettin, 22, was stabbed more than 70 times before her body was wrapped in black plastic bags and dumped in a ditch …

For more than a decade, a computer expert from Newport in south Wales has doggedly fought to recover £500m of bitcoin he says was accidentally

thrown into a council tip

James Howells’ bid to become extremely rich reached a high court judge on Tuesday with a team …