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MPs demand probe into high fuel bills energy bills

26.10.09
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Standard Life picks ‘obvious insider’ Nish for top job

19.10.09
One of the most closely watched succession battles for years came to an end today, when Standard Life finally unveiled its next chief executive ... more

Smiths is on course for a sell-off after its shake-up

30.09.09
The grand auction of businesses in the Smiths engineering and technology conglomerate is on schedule for the spring of 2011, chief executive Philip Bowman indicated ... more

Ofgem: why questions on energy bills are piling up

24.09.09
Energy analysis: Has anyone heard whether their household energy prices are coming down any time soon? ... more

City Spy: So upbeat at Sir Victor’s leaving do

18.09.09
Much jollity at Sir Victor Blank’s leaving party at Lloyds Banking Group headquarters in Gresham Street the other evening... more

An electricity and gas price cartel? Why Ofgem can't tell

17.09.09
Energy analysis: The price of wholesale gas, which was last year trading at more than 60p a therm, has fallen sharply and been priced below 20p a therm. Yet there are no signs of a cut in retail prices... more

Cash-rich SSE unveils massive Shetland Island wind project

21.05.09
Just a day after Europe's biggest wind farm was switched on in Scotland, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) today unveiled plans for an ever bigger wind project in the Shetland Islands.... more

It’s a takeover – the Germans and French want our nuclear power industry

07.05.09
Other EU countries have tough rules covering their atomic energy market. Our open-door approach means foreign firms are queuing up ... more

Honeymoon couple are first cases in the UK

28.04.09
The newly-wed couple who became the first people in Britain to contract swine flu are responding well to treatment, their relatives said ... more

Clouds on the horizon in our ‘dash for gas’

26.03.09
Energy analysis: Gas is set to provide 70% of the UK’s energy — but the risk is that we rely too much on supplies from foreign powers.... more

New rules will protect power firm customers from pushy salesmen

23.03.09
Tough new rules to stop consumers being steamrollered into switching energy supplier by unscrupulous doorstep salesmen were unveiled... more

High hopes, but we're still blowing hot and cold over wind

19.02.09
Energy analysis: It is being billed as the next North Sea boom. This week the tentative go-ahead was given for the construction of up to 2000 giant turbines off the coast of Scotland... more

Fuel bills to be cut for millions

11.02.09
Millions of utility bills are set to fall after four energy suppliers pledged to follow cuts by British Gas and Southern Electric... more

Scottish and Southern Energy cuts prices by 9%

06.02.09
Scottish and Southern Energy has become the second power firm to cut prices for customers... more

UK nuclear power struggle hots up as new team joins fray

04.02.09
Energy: The scramble for the British nuclear industry has intensified as it emerged that another French heavyweight is bidding to build new multi-billion-pound reactors in the UK... more

Johnston Press chairman Parry to step down

28.01.09
British regional newspaper group Johnston Press said media-industry veteran Roger Parry would retire as chairman in March and would be replaced by non-executive director Ian Russell... more

British Gas cuts family fuel bill by average £79

22.01.09
British gas has slashed 10 per cent off gas bills, the first cut in energy prices since 2007... more

Energy firms told to lower prices or face cartel probe

16.12.08
Energy companies have been threatened with a full-scale cartel investigation unless they slash bills in the New Year... more

Energy bills to fall by £100 in the wake of oil price collapse

10.11.08
Energy bills are set to fall by around £100 next year as a result of collapsing wholesale gas and electricity prices... more

Energy firms get a roasting

31.10.08
Customer dissatisfaction with gas and electricity suppliers has rocketed after a year of price rises, a survey by price-comparison site uSwitch has found... more

Power bills must be cut soon demands watchdog

21.10.08
Energy companies are coming under huge pressure to cut bills this winter following the recent dramatic fall in oil prices... more

Time to act together on rates

07.10.08
A cut by the MPC acting on its own, though welcomed, would quickly be forgotten in the current market climate... more

Ofgem study clears 'big six' energy firms of price fixing

06.10.08
Britain's big six energy suppliers have been cleared of allegations that they are operating a cartel... more

Cheap insulation for all but no free fuel vouchers

10.09.08
Every household in Britain will get help with its fuel bill under a deal hammered out between the Government and the major energy firms... more

Energy bills rocket by up to £250 but Brown pledges housing help

29.08.08
More than 600,000 families in London and the South-East have been hit by energy bill increases of up to 34 per cent... more

Energy firms bid to beat threat of windfall tax

27.08.08
Energy firms appeared to be caving in to government threats of a windfall tax by offering to boost their spending on tackling "fuel poverty"... more

Still a long way to go for house builders

02.07.08
A shrewd old stockbroker of my acquaintance recommended to his clients a month ago that they should buy housebuilders' shares, but with three caveats... more

Be ready for big rises in gas, consumers warned

24.06.08
Energy chiefs have admitted that millions of customers may be paying too much for power... more

Cable & Wireless makes a takeover swoop for £240m Thus

28.05.08
Cable & Wireless forced to declare that it has made a takeover approach for Thus after shares in the former Scottish Telecom went shooting ahead... more

£36m fine for Severn over water bills scam

08.04.08
Severn Trent pleads guilty to charges of lying to the water industry regulator... more

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