Thames Water asks creditors for more time to help repay £20bn debt pile
<p>Troubled utility lobbies for deadline on part of the debt to be extended to March 2028</p><p>Thames Water has asked its creditors for more time to pay back billions of pounds in debt, as the water company scrambles to keep itself afloat.</p><p>The UK’s largest water company said it had proposed an “interim” deal under which the deadline to pay off an unsp