Daily Catch-up: Chair of RTE board apologised for not sharing resignation update, says minister

Daily Catch-up

Chair of RTE board apologised for not sharing resignation update, says minister

Catherine Martin met with Siun Ni Raghallaigh in Dublin on Saturday.

Met Police officer guilty of sexually assaulting woman in sea after stag do

Sergeant Laurence Knight was cleared of raping the woman, a stranger whom he met in Brighton city centre in the early hours of July 17 2021.

Glastonbury festival-goers use data equivalent to 400 HD film downloads an hour

Vodafone figures show 450 gigabytes of data were uploaded during Sir Elton John’s Sunday headline performance on the Pyramid Stage.

Who owns Thames Water, how much money does it owe and what might happen next?

Much of the debt was added when Thames Water was owned by Macquarie, the massive Australian investor.

Longest-serving daily newspaper editor in UK and Ireland prepares to step down

Noel Doran has been at the helm of the Northern Ireland-based Irish News for 25 years.

Tate Liverpool presents hospital with artwork celebrating NHS staff

The artwork depicts workers at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital during the pandemic.

Migrant smugglers ‘gave children sleeping pills’ to keep quiet

Migrants were brought by car to the Croatian-Slovenian border, then walked across at night and picked up on the other side, police said.

Aspartame sweetener to be listed as ‘possible cancer risk’ by WHO – reports

The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer is preparing to label the sweetener as ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’, according to reports.

Thames Water has ‘secure and committed’ funding, Government insists

Thames Water’s troubles has put the water sector’s £60 billion combined debt pile under the spotlight.

Thames Water crisis: Which other suppliers are struggling?

Industry regulator Ofwat has flagged five water companies it is most worried about in terms of their financial resilience.