First shoots show of £50m scheme to replant the game in state schools

Some suppliers are hiking gas and electricity prices, but households can slash their costs by switching

British Energy shares are set to be re-listed on Monday in a move likely to value the nuclear power generator at up to £1.8bn - some 56 times more than it was worth when trading was suspended last autumn.

Scottish Power may still pay out for its extended 'cashback' guarantees, says Paul Gosling

Thus, the telecoms group spun out of Scottish Power, was left stunned yesterday by a 21 per cent slump in its share price after the company's trading update at its annual meeting.

Household electricity bills could rise by about 2 per cent under proposals published yesterday by the energy regulator Ofgem that set out how much the industry plans to spend on its regional wires networks over the next five years.

Scottish Power has warned that it may shift a large portion of its proposed £1bn-plus investment in wind farms to the US unless the planning process is reformed.

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To allow one Internet jackpot to slip from one's grasp is certainly a misfortune; to miss out on another would be worse than carelessness. So this time Greg Hadfield is ensuring he keeps control of Schoolsnet, his new education web site. He has learnt the hard way from Soccernet, his previous big hit in cyberspace, that it is all too easy to sign away potential online riches.

UNILEVER was put in the spotlight by whispers of a mega-merger with US rival Gillette. The wild rumour of a gigantic transatlantic link between the two consumer products giants excited the market, but did little to stop a slide in Unilever's shares, down 4.5p to a 12-month low of 464.5p.

THUS, the telecoms start-up developed by Scottish Power, made a solid if unspectacular debut on the Stock Exchange yesterday when it closed at a modest 9 per cent premium to its bumped-up 310p flotation price.