South East Water boss David Hinton resigns Water The chief executive of South East Water, David Hinton, resigned from the embattled utility today, after presiding over one of the scandal-hit industry’s most notorious supply failures. Hinton was in charge during a series of outages in Tunbridge Wells and Kent in November and December 2025. There were more outages last January. As the firm struggled [...]
Government risks missing both housing and nature targets, MPs find Property The Government risks missing both its housing and nature targets under its proposed reforms, a cross-party group of MPs has warned in a new report. The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) found that the measures outlined in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which is currently passing through the final stages in Parliament, are not enough to [...]