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Grieving Relatives Ordeal with 1p Heating Bill

A family of a dead man has been chased by British Gas over an unpaid heating bill of just 1p. The former mill worker, Leonard Howe, died in December 2006, and the gas heating bill was sent to his relatives. Mr Howes daughter said “it was upsetting enough to just see his name on the heating bill, but when I opened it I couldnt believe my eyes. It must have cost them a lot more than 1p to send the heating bill”. She added that she had been responsible and following her fathers death sorted out his financial situation. She took a gas meter reading and promptly paid the heating bills. She commented “something has gone very badly wrong somewhere”.The request to pay the boiler and gas heating bills was particularly painful as it came near the anniversary of Mr. Howes death.The spokesman for British Gas commented on the 1p heating bill saying that is was automatically generated when the new owners of Mr Howes property were registered. The spokesman has added that &ldqu ...
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Record Gas Prices Hike 35 per cent by British Gas

Centrica PLC, owner of British Gas has announced it will raise prices for domestic gas by 35% and for electricity by 9% with immediate effect. The UK's biggest domestic energy supplier blamed "soaring wholesale energy prices", but added that standard tariff prices would not rise again in 2008. Simultaneously Centrica has revealed a 20% drop in profits (to £992 million) in the first six months of 2008, from £1.23bn a year earlier, with the firm blaming higher wholesale gas prices. EDF Energy has raised the cost of heating and cooking gas by 22% and electricity by 17% earlier this week. It is expected other energy companies will follow suit shortly.According to British Gas, which has 15.9 million customers in the UK, the average dual fuel bill would go up by 25%. This will take the average dual fuel bill to £1,240. Energywatch, the industry watchdog, said that the 35% increase to heating gas is the biggest single increase in the price of utility to date.Britis ...
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