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If the deal goes ahead, Pennon Group, which owns South West Water will add SES's 750,000 customers to its books.

Water utilities Severn Trent and Pennon, and Holiday Inn owner IHG are three of the companies with women in chair roles.

Alix Trevisick works for the Pennon Group, the owners of South West Water, preparing and sterilising equipment.

Alix's colleague Jo Ecroyd, the head of inclusion at the Pennon Group, says "any responsible business has a duty" to promote inclusion and "reflect the set-up of the communities that we serve and live in".

Sir Robert now stood before them, revealed not as a knight in glittering plate armor with pennon flying from his lance, but as what he had been all along: a grave, punctilious, honest lawyer.