内容摘要：And in January, it had to pay an extra £1.2m to customers in compensation, after the industry regulator intervened

And in January, it had to pay an extra £1.2m to customers in compensation, after the industry regulator intervened

The statement read: "In Thanet alone, since 2020 we've invested more than £28 million in our wastewater sites and sewer network, and we plan to spend a further £47.2 million over the next ten years."Sentencing will happen at a later date at a crown court.

Thames Water and other water companies could be prevented by the industry regulator from paying any bonuses under rules due to come into effect next month.Environment Secretary Steve Reed said new measures would stop water companies dumping a "tidal wave of sewage into our rivers while pocketing millions of pounds of bonuses".Regulator Ofwat has been able to stop firms using customer money to fund bonuses, but the new rules mean they could not use funds from shareholders or lenders either.

However, in a statement Thames, which recently agreed a £3bn rescue loan, said it was not paying performance-related bonuses but instead "retention payments", which were not covered by the new rules.Thames Water is the UK's biggest water company, serving about a quarter of the UK's population, but has come under fire in recent years.

It has huge debts and is struggling to fix leaks, sewage spills and modernise outdated infrastructure.

The company has estimated it could be fined up to £900m over the next five years for leaks and sewage spills.This month, Hungary's competition authority imposed a 770,000 euro fine on Wizz Air for misleading communications, including for how it encouraged customers to purchase more expensive travel packages.

Wizz Air told BBC News it "questions the legality of the fine, disagrees with its reasoning and is taking legal action."Also in August, Wizz Air reported a 44% drop in first-quarter operating profit and cut its profit forecast for the year as a whole.

Fast fashion shoppers need to think about where cheap clothes comes from before they make purchases, former Prime Minister Theresa May has said as she warned that the topic of modern slavery had slipped down the political agenda.she said some companies were actively checking their supply chains to make sure slave labour had not been used and reflecting that "on their packaging".