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Major blaze after freight train derails
Tuesday 27 January 2009
Firefighters tackled an "intensive" blaze today after a freight train carrying fuel derailed and caught fire.
Miliband steps up nuclear drive
Sunday 25 January 2009
Crunch talks on the UK's nuclear rollout programme will take place on Tuesday.
Paul Gosling: Double the trouble as Abbey is called to account
Saturday 15 November 2008
Questions Of Cash
The Big Question: What does a foreign takeover of British Energy mean for the industry?
Thursday 25 September 2008
Energy giants clash with Brown over costs of saving fuel
Friday 12 September 2008
Gordon Brown's £1bn package to help people cut soaring fuel bills ran into immediate controversy yesterday after electricity companies refused to rule out passing on the cost of the scheme to customers.
Consumers hit by gas and electricity price rises
Friday 29 August 2008
Energy firms Npower and Scottish Power today announced more bad news for households with steep hikes in gas and electricity prices.
Ministers to tell energy firms: 'Use your profits to help poor'
Wednesday 27 August 2008
Energy companies could escape a windfall tax on their huge profits if they do more to help people struggling to pay their fuel bills.
How to beat the energy price hikes
Saturday 23 August 2008
The market price of natural gas leapt by 15 per cent on Wednesday, after the news broke that a leak had been found in a key Norwegian pipeline which supplies the UK. It could mean yet more bad news for British consumers, many of whom have already seen energy prices hiked twice since the start of 2008, and who may now be facing a third rise before the end of the year.
Firms hike energy prices
Thursday 21 August 2008
Two of the UK's "big six" energy firms hiked gas and electricity prices today - adding to the misery for millions of hard-pressed households.
Simon Evans: The glass is definitely half-empty as drinks groups go to the wall
Sunday 10 August 2008
Consumers are tightening their belts and an industry is contracting
Darling considers windfall tax on energy firms
Friday 01 August 2008
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is considering imposing a windfall tax on the multi-billion pound profits of energy companies following the surge in oil and gas prices.
Shop online, and you get the chance to drive a hard bargain
Saturday 31 May 2008
Consumers are using cashback sites to cut the cost of everything from RAC cover to wine. By Helen Monks
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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