Wednesday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, Anglian Water, Telegraph, Greenergy

(Sharecast News) - Two of Britain's biggest water companies, Thames Water and Anglian Water, face more than 50 criminal investigations between them as part of a crackdown on sewage dumping, the government has said. The utilities were subject to the bulk of a record 81 investigations into water companies between last July's general election and March 2025, according to new data. - Guardian A £25m post-Brexit border control post in Portsmouth may have to be demolished if the UK government's deal with the EU removes the need for health and veterinary checks on food imports, according to the port's director. Mike Sellers had already spoken out last year about how more than half of the site would never be used because planned checks on EU food and plant products had been pared back since it was designed, leading to the building being called a "white elephant". - Guardian

Tory peers are poised to defy their party leadership and seek to block a deal to hand the United Arab Emirates a stake in The Telegraph. A split has emerged since Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, said last week that she would change the law to allow foreign states to own up to 15pc of British newspapers. - Telegraph

Ed Miliband must consider raising taxes or gas bills if the UK is to have any hope of hitting net zero, the Government's climate change quango has warned. To ensure his flagship policy succeeds, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said the Energy Secretary needs to remove green levies from household power costs. However, to pay for this, it said the levies should be shifted onto gas bills or covered by general taxation. The quango stopped short of saying which one it preferred. - Telegraph

One of Britain's four remaining biodiesel plants is at risk of being shut because of competition from subsidised American imports, in the latest sign of distress in the biofuels sector. Greenergy, owned by the commodities trading giant Trafigura, said that it had temporarily suspended operations at its Immingham site in Lincolnshire while it conducted "a strategic review to evaluate the plant's commercial viability amid the significant challenges facing the UK biofuels industry". - The Times