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One of the last sailing barge skippers working on the Thames who later went into the sailmaking business

Exclusive: Under Whitehall blueprint for water company some lenders could lose up to 40% of their money

Letters: Wendy Bradley suggests a grand water downing ceremony presided over by the king for Thames Water and others. Plus a letter from Pete Lavender

The satirical political candidate has unveiled a list of 24 policies - with some more extreme than others

From eye-boggling balloon rooms, to historical Easter egg hunts in palace grounds, there’s tonnes of brilliant London activities for children over the break

In his bestselling book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly referenced the '10,000-Hour Rule', based on research by Swedish psychologist Anders Ericsson. Despite its subsequent controversy, the rule's premise is in someways fairly pedestrian: achieving greatness in any skill requires time and effort.

It is a rudimentary lesson of statistics that correlation does not necessarily equal causation. Otherwise, Thames Water customers might reasonably conclude that the higher their bills rise, the more sewage the company pumps into London’s rivers.

Thames Water customers will see a huge rise in bills this week despite sewage being pumped into London rivers for more than 9,773 hours in 2023

Residents in an Oxfordshire village have claimed the sewage has blighted their lives