Source: https://news.sky.com/story/private-dentist-price-hikes-to-be-investigated-by-competition-watchdog-13515507
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South East Water is to be fined £22m for repeated supply failures, watchdog Ofwat has said. The fine relates to the water company’s supply interruptions in Kent and Sussex between 2020 and 2023, which affected more than 286,000 people. It is also under investigation for outages over the last four months. Ofwat said the fine
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A company has admitted it supplied water that was unfit for human consumption after a parasitic outbreak in Devon. During a hearing at Exeter Magistrates’ Court, South West Water Ltd pleaded guilty to an offence under s70(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 to supplying water unfit for human consumption. Some people were treated in
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Donald Trump’s offer of US-backed insurance and naval escorts for shipping travelling through the Strait of Hormuz has not prevented maritime premiums soaring as underwriters scramble to reassess the risks to oil, gas and cargo vessels. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed to shipping following the US attack on Iran, on Tuesday the president
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Middle-income earners will be hardest hit by a freeze to the student loan repayment threshold, experts have said. Rachel Reeves announced in her November budget that the salary level at which many graduates start to pay back their loan would be frozen for three years from April 2027. The move could drag workers into making
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On the first Wednesday of every month, we interview top chefs from around the UK, hearing about their cheap food hacks, views on the industry and more. This month, we speak to last year’s Great British Menu finalist Jean Delport, of the Michelin-starred Interlude in West Sussex. I don’t think people realise just how much
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The rise in gas prices over the past 48 hours is without precedent. Even in the chaotic opening weeks of the Ukraine war in 2022, the gas price never doubled. But that is precisely what has happened to wholesale methane prices in the UK. And since gas prices are arguably the single most important price
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The after-effects of a debacle that has seen taxpayers pay hundreds of millions for a pair of ferries at nearly four times the original budget, are continuing with the harbour that was too small to fit the ships set to be taken into public ownership. The affair has been one of Scotland’s biggest political scandals
The economic impacts of the Iran war are already being felt in global markets, and could raise energy prices and wider consumer bills in the UK before long. The immediate impact of American and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on numerous neighbours in the Middle East, has been to push up oil
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The UK’s economic forecast has been downgraded for 2026 but will then improve – and unemployment will peak this year, the chancellor has revealed. Giving her spring statement in the House of Commons, Rachel Reeves said gross domestic product (GDP) will now grow “slightly slower in 2026” than forecast at November’s autumn budget, but will
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