Ofwat gives struggling firm, which is trying to secure funding to avoid nationalisation, breathing space

Thames Water has agreed a payment plan with the water regulator for fines it owes worth £123m, as it races to secure funding to avoid temporary nationalisation.

The water company, which serves 16 million customers across London and the south-east, is currently trying to pull together a deal to avoid collapse.

Guinness World Records is celebrating by looking back at the extraordinary feats achieved since its inception – as well as unveiling 70 whacky and unclaimed records. The organisation’s first volume was published on 27 August 1955 and sparked a worldwide curiosity about extraordinary record-breaking achievements

They have won the Palme d’Or twice, and their latest offering about teen motherhood scooped the screenwriting prize. The brothers discuss their working methods, who inspires them, and what they disagree about

Earlier this year, the Cannes film festival saw a triumphant new appearance from European cinema’s kings of social realism and social conscience. The Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, now 74 and 71, presented a movie that is one of their very best: Jeunes Mères or Young Mothers, a deeply compassionate, intelligent drama about a home for teen mothers or mothers-to-be in the directors’ home town of Liège in Belgium. These young women are faced with the existential question: is it sensible to give their infants up for adoption, or a fundamental loss of moral courage?

The Dardennes have become known for intensely naturalist performances and handheld camerawork, radical simplicity and clarity. They have won the Cannes Palme d’Or twice, firstly for their drama Rosetta in 1999, about a young woman who must look after her troubled mother in a trailer park – starring the then nonprofessional teenager Émilie Dequenne – and secondly the terrifying, faintly Greeneian drama L’Enfant or The Child, from 2005, with Jérémie Renier as a petty criminal who gives his own baby away to a “private adoption” broker and then desperately tries to get it back.

It’s bad for the planet and could make many jobs – including mine – obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than that

It’s one of those topics that comes up over drinks or dinner at the moment: whether or not you think AI is going to steal your job. So far, I’ve felt relatively confident that while AI could no doubt have a fair crack at writing a newspaper opinion column, there is something I do as part of my work that AI cannot: reporting.

Except now, it seems, AI is claiming to be doing that as well. Last week, it was revealed that at least six reputable publications have had to take down published articles because it turned out that they were probably pieces of fiction written by AI and then passed off by somebody as works of journalism under the name of Margaux Blanchard. One of these was a piece for Wired titled They Fell in Love Playing Minecraft. Then the Game Became Their Wedding Venue, which quoted a “digital celebrant” called Jessica Hu, who does not seem to actually exist. Another publication, called Dispatch, received a pitch from “Blanchard” about an ex-mining town called Gravemont that had been repurposed as a training ground for death investigation. Gravemont doesn’t exist either.

Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist

Police say suspect Dezi Freeman knows Victorian high country bushland ‘better than us’, as tributes paid to two dead officers

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An adventure-loving local detective planning his retirement and a senior constable on temporary assignment in Victoria’s alpine region have been identified as the victims of a shooting in Porepunkah.

Detective leading senior constable Neal Thompson, 59, and senior constable Vadim De Waart, 35, were on Wednesday named by police as the officers allegedly killed by Dezi Freeman on Tuesday morning.

• Club uncertain if American will pay £100m asking price

• Chansiri has spoken with several potential buyers

John Textor has registered his interest in Sheffield Wednesday with the owner, Dejphon Chansiri, and is poised for talks over a potential takeover of the troubled Championship club, the Guardian understands.

The American businessman is understood to have sounded out Chansiri’s representatives in recent days and wants to schedule a meeting with him for next week after flying to the UK. The asking price for Wednesday is thought to be about £100m, although it remains to be seen whether Textor would be prepared to offer that much.