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ARGY-BARGY
The recent breach on the Llangollen canal highlighted again the crumbling state of the UK's waterways – but who will pay to fix the ageing infrastructure?

THAMES BARRIERS
Significant elements of the Port of London Authority's attempted wide-ranging rights grab along the Thames have been turned down in a report.

PARENTAL CONTROLS
Sailors in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary face harsh and restrictive maternity policies that are forcing them out of the service at a time of recruitment crisis.

STEELE TRAP
Donald Trump is facing fresh humiliation in his failed lawfare campaign against ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, who is chasing £750,000 in costs.

CLINK CLUNK
A prison run by G4S paid the largest "poor performance" penalty of any of the country's 13 private prisons in 2024-25, figures obtained by the Eye reveal.

BARSTON FINKS
E-learning company Oxbridge Ltd went into administration in October, with creditors owed £1.84m – but then a near clone of Oxbridge appeared…

DEAD LOSSES
The Post Office has revealed yet more alarming under-performance, in the shape of a trading loss of £12m in 2024/25, down from a profit of £22m.

CHAPTER AND PURSE
Investors in a private children's home provider shared £11m in taxpayer-funded dividends last year – £157,000 for every young person in the company's care.

PARTY LINE
The mother of Mark Blanco, who died at a party attended by a drug-addled Pete Doherty in 2006, has finally won the first independent review of the case.

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