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A gas hob with a bill from British Gas, February 8, 2007
A REDUCTION in energy prices will still leave households struggling to pay their bills while companies pocket billions in profits, unions and campaigners warned today.
Energy regulator Ofgem is to lower the cap on energy bills by 12.5 per cent in April, with average annual bills expected to fall by £238 as a result.
But Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham said working people would still be “paying through the nose while the energy profiteers laugh all the way to the bank.”
New PM slashes fuel bills and culls Starmer deadwood, but peace activists warn that placing John Healey as new Chancellor shows ‘beyond doubt that the military industrial complex is in charge of Burnham’s economic policy’
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
