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british gas suspends its force fitting of prepament meters following a report that it was imposing them on vulnerable customers. its chief executive, chris 0 shea has apologised. there chris 0 shea has apologised. is nothing that i can 5 can there is nothing that i can say that can express the horror i had when i heard this, when i saw this. it is completely unacceptable, that language is completely unacceptable. the largest ever outbreak of bird flu is now infecting mammals in the uk. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. europe s biggest energy firm, shell, has reported record annual profits of nearly $40 billion in 2022, more than double what it made in the previous year. the profits are the biggest in the firm s history boosted by higher energy prices since the start of the ukraine war. shell has already said it will pay tax in the uk for the first time since 2017 as a result of the government s windfall tax. let s take a closer loo ....
Got to try and find the positives where you can. but that can feel like slim pickings when trying to meet the increasing costs of keeping a roof over your head. joining me now for more on this is the co founder of the savings advice group, savings champion, anna bowes. of course lots of people won t have very many savings but if you do what is your advice now, is rising interest rates be good news. interest rates rising for over a year now and it is made a significant difference to the amount of interest people can earn on their cash savings. an example of that, you go the best easy access accounts, where you can take money out, it was paying 0.71%. today you can get up to 3.35% on up to £5,000, and you can get 2.92% for more, so it is so much more than you are getting before so if you haven t ....