News Meeting: Rising water bills and the future of the Archbishop of York

Giles Whittell and guests debate what stories should lead the news. They discuss calls for Stephen Cottrell to step down over his handling of a sexual abuse case, failures of the UK’s privatised water industry, and ABC News’s $15 million defamation settlement with Donald Trump.

Guests:

• Pete Apps, Inside Housing contributing editor and Orwell Prize winning author • Basia Cummings, editor at Tortoise • Stephen Armstrong, reporter at Tortoise

Host: Giles Whittell, deputy editor at Tortoise

Email: newsmeeting@tortoisemedia.com

Producer: Casey Magloire

Executive producer: Rebecca Moore

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