内容摘要：Southern Water customers could be charged an extra £279 a year by 2030, it has been claimed.

Southern Water customers could be charged an extra £279 a year by 2030, it has been claimed.

A US court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting a Georgetown University researcher who was detained by immigration authorities earlier this week.Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national, is a postdoctoral fellow studying and teaching at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused him of "spreading Hamas propaganda" and having "close connections to a known or suspected terrorist".Mr Suri's lawyer and employer have denied the allegation. His lawyer said in a court filing that his client was targeted because of his wife's "identity as a Palestinian and her constitutionally protected speech".In an order on Thursday, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles said Mr Suri "shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court issues a contrary order".

In a sworn statement, his wife Mapheze Saleh said the detention "has completely upended our lives" and appealed to the court to allow Mr Suri to return home to his family."Our children are in desperate need of their father and miss him dearly," she said. "As a mother of three children, I desperately need his support to take care of them and me."

His arrest follows the detention or deportation of other foreign students and academics, including Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist.

Mr Suri was arrested outside his home in northern Virginia on Monday night by masked immigration agents, according to legal filings seen by CBS News, the BBC's US partner.He said people with concerns should be listened to but added: "We want cheaper electricity, we need cheaper power, we can't pretend that can be done without the need for pylons above the ground.

"Politics is about being honest with people, saying: 'If you want xyz then we are going to have to do the following things'."On illegal migration, Sir Keir said there was a backlog of tens of thousands of asylum seekers waiting to have their claim processed, while the government was paying for their accommodation.

He accused the previous Conservative government of "pretending there's some magical way to wish away that number".He said his government would process the backlog and return those who had no right to be in the UK.