Splashing out
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Sean Farrington hears from the water customer watchdog after it received the highest number of complaints over water bills in nine years. And it's a mining mega-merger... FTSE-listed giant Anglo American has agreed a deal worth nearly £40bn with Canada’s Teck Resources - but what will it mean for UK plc?
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| 0:00.0 | You're dead to me. |
| 0:05.0 | No, no, that's the name of our podcast. Sorry. |
| 0:08.7 | And we're back for a brand new series. |
| 0:11.1 | Not only is it British history, it was a quill drop. |
| 0:15.1 | With more fun and facts from history without taking it too seriously. |
| 0:19.8 | Empress Matilda, what is she going to do now? |
| 0:21.7 | She decides to take back some of the jewels with her. I'm taking these as well. I'm going to come back |
| 0:27.3 | for Tuscany one day as well. You're dead to me. Again, not you. Name of the show. Listen first on |
| 0:33.7 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:40.4 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:43.7 | Hello, welcome to wake up to money. |
| 0:45.7 | Higher water bills have led to the most complaints to the industry watchdog, |
| 0:49.6 | the Consumer Council for Water, in nine years, have you been one of those? |
| 0:53.7 | Contactless payments, are you happy if a tap of your card becomes limitless as it may well do now? And big batteries for cars, for drones and whether it's okay if they're from China. |
| 1:04.1 | Wake Up to Money with Sean Farrington. Good morning to you. It is Wake Up to Money on BBC 5 Live, not far off 25 to 6 on this Wednesday morning. |
| 1:14.7 | The 10th of September, thank you for being with us. We're going to be getting right into what is behind the increase in number of complaints to the water regulator a little bit later. |
| 1:26.5 | They've risen to more than 8,200 over the |
| 1:30.2 | course of the last year. It's highest level for nine years. Do let me know. We've talked so much |
| 1:36.8 | in recent months about what the water industry should look like, who should be owning it, |
| 1:42.7 | who should be investing in it, who should be paying |
| 1:44.7 | for past issues that are very much having an impact on today. But when we look at the complaints |
| 1:51.7 | that mainly households are making, what are you seeing as being the issues that affect you? |
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