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Wessex Water chief pockets above-inflation pay rise despite bonus ban over sewage spills
Wessex Water awarded its chief executive an above-inflation pay increase even as the company was banned from paying bonuses because of sewage spills, it has emerged.Ruth Jefferson received a...
Singapore court orders Bloomberg to pay ministers $356,000 in defamation case
Bloomberg News and one of its reporters have been ordered to pay S$460,000 (US$355,734) in damages after an article it published was found to have defamed two Singapore government...
South East Water to pay £30.5m penalty after multiple failures
South East Water will pay £30.5m after a series of supply interruptions, customer failings and for breaching its licence, regulator Ofwat has confirmed.The watchdog said the redress package concludes...
Infrastructure cuts to pay for defence will cost UK 10,000 jobs, analysis shows
Keir Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds of infrastructure spending to pay for more defence equipment will end up costing the UK 10,000 jobs, according to an analysis...
Democratic congressman asks the CFPB to investigate ‘rent now, pay later’ companies
NEW YORK — A Democratic member of Congress is calling for the federal government to investigate the growing “rent now, pay later” industry, saying Americans may not understand the...
R&B star Chris Brown ordered to pay $13m to housekeeper mauled by his dog
R&B star Chris Brown has been ordered to pay $12.9m in damages to a housekeeper who was mauled by a dog at one of his properties.Maria Avila was working...
‘Fine for others to pay more’: can Japan attract more overseas tourists while charging them extra?
Perched dramatically on a hilltop in western Japan, Himeji castle’s striking white-plastered, tiered roofs earned it the moniker “white heron castle”. The sweeping 17th-century complex is regarded as the...
Asylum seekers to pay £10,000 towards living costs under new UK law
Asylum seekers will be ordered to pay about £10,000 to cover their state-funded living costs or be denied settled status in the UK under a new law to be...
