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Friday briefing: What the crisis at Thames Water means for customers
Good morning. Thames Water’s financial problems have finally come to a head, after Ofwat, the national water regulator, made the unprecedented decision yesterday to put the debt-laden company into special measures. Earlier this week the regional monopoly …