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Chronicle turns the heat on energy firms including British Gas, EON and Ovo after readers plead for help chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Berwick families fear they will be able to hear new cinema from their gardens chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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British Gas says sorry as grieving sisters bombarded with 'appalling' bills stokesentinel.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stokesentinel.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sisters 'at the end of their tether' after feeling harassed by British Gas following Morpeth mum's death chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sisters get 20 letters, bills and texts as they try to pay mum's final gas bill walesonline.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from walesonline.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images There were 35% fewer planned operations carried out in Scottish hospitals in December compared with the same period the year before, monthly figures show. The official statistics highlight the impact of the pandemic on the NHS. In December 2020, NHS Scotland carried out 16,740 planned operations. In December 2019, the figure was 25,791. December 2020's figure had also decreased 6.6% on the month before, with 17,916 planned operations carried out in November. Last December, 7.5% (1,257) of all planned operations, were cancelled the day before or on the day the patient was due to be treated. Of all the operations cancelled in this way, 3.1% (511) were cancelled by the hospital for "clinical reasons", 2.3% (381) for "capacity or non-clinical reasons", 1.9% (319) were cancelled by the patient and 0.3% (46) were cancelled for other reasons.