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» The Lord moves in mysterious ways
If the good Lord helps those who help themselves, United Utilities, it seems, helps those who have been victims of those who help themselves. After thieves stripped the lead from the roof of St Michael's - a Victorian church in the well-irrigated village of Shap in Cumbria - the 32,000 repair bill t...
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» Let me make this plain...
In its website description of its reasons for being, Ofgem says "the interests of gas and electricity consumers are their interests taken as a whole, including their interests in the reduction of greenhouse gases and in the security of the supply of gas and electricity to them". Interesting.
» Coming up with the wrong numbers
Ofgem had to duck for cover last week as it faced a barrage of criticism over 1 million in bonuses handed out to its highest flyers. "Pay awards are set in accordance to Cabinet rules," it opined, as usual. But my buddies at Utility Week were left wondering whether any of the authors of a recent do...
» UW on politics: Energy Bill, is the wait nearly over?
» UW on politics: Today's Queen's Speech and a blast from the past
We certainly live in interesting times. A group of backbench Tory MPs have proposed an alternative to the Coalition's latest legislative programme which the Queen will announce in Parliament later today.
» Nuclear fall out
» Police bottle it
» An average mistake
» It's raining immigrants
The Daily Express's Leo McKinstry got caught in the rain last week and concluded: "The fact is that there is no drought in Britain."
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