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HAVE YOUR SAY

ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET?

As gas bills soar we ask how YOU are coping...

Thursday July 31,2008

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FAMILIES were last night reeling from a devastating 35 per cent rise in gas bills – the biggest ever.

It is the second time that British Gas has raised prices in less than seven months.

Critics condemned the move for coming at a time when millions of households are already struggling to cope with spiralling fuel bills.

British Gas justified the rises by blaming soaring wholesale costs, which have sent its profits into a nosedive.

But the firm’s parent company, Centrica, is still expected to today announce half-year profits of nearly £1billion across its whole business.

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SREUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET?

24.08.08, 4:28am

It makes my blood boil........what is going on?...all these profits the energy firms are making and the government also.....just so the little man at the end foots the bill.
The wars were fought for the children and their children, to have the NHS , education and housing. For what?....all the foreigners to just come and take...i feel sorry for our OAP's they went through hell for this country and look how the country repays them, they are struggling along with others..its diabolical. Britain is a dumping ground where is the british spirit???..make a stand, dont take it!!!

• Posted by: cocklesandeels • Report Comment

NOT ME BUT MANY

20.08.08, 1:45am

maybe you should demand more regulation and the return to public ownership [you and me] of our utilities sandieL. Don't be scared to admit thau were wrong.

• Posted by: brusselssprouts • Report Comment

YES, I AM

11.08.08, 2:41am

and it winds me up to see the new British Gas adverts, saying these are keeping the prices down.

That the the new streamer ads on the top of the page here, and down the side telling me I can save 200 quid.

What a nerve. They should be done under the Trades Description Act for fraud and lies.

If they cut the adverts out, they wouldn't need to charge us poor peasants so much.

• Posted by: SandieL • Report Comment

YOU CAN'T TOP YOURSELF WITH NATURAL GAS LORNA.

08.08.08, 10:55am

I once attended in incident where a man tried to commit suicide by putting his head in a gas oven. After half an hour of not succeeding, he lit a fag and blew himself up.

• Posted by: Harveymiff • Report Comment

WOULD BE

07.08.08, 9:06pm

struggling to make ends meet on my old age pension if I and my husband had not paid into private pension schemes, although it is not a lot it really helps to ease the worry a bit. Just been informed by our electric/gas supplier that our monthly payment for both is to increase from £110 to £240 - they will be lucky. Have been in contact and they say 'we are sorry there has been a mistake', so I should coco. Could have caused a serious health problem. If they were correct then the gas stove would have come in handy!!!!!

• Posted by: lorna69 • Report Comment

NOPE

06.08.08, 11:22pm

Still no Brussels activity in here.

I guess that's the non-Bulldog spirit shining through.

Mind you the vitriolic responses don't last long enough to be read so what does it matter? I know people lash out when they're scared but...

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment