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August 2008
It's the big one:
Yorkshire Water has decided to go big - literally and metaphorically ...more »
Who needs friends in high places?
Maybe nuclear giant EDF wishes Clare Spottiswoode, one-time energy regulator, was still on the board of British Energy ...more »
France loses its bottle
The great man notes that even in the spiritual home of bottled water, tap water is making a comeback. ...more »
Top of the taps
According to a special tasting in London by a panel of chefs and wine stewards, what comes out of taps in Severn Trent's fiefdom tastes the best ...more »
What not to say
The great man chuckled about some of the utility companies' greatest consumer gaffes, recounted recently by the Guardian's erstwhile consumer champion Anna Timms. ...more »
Fat cats feast as folk freeze!
It just goes to show what a pariah Centrica has become. Disconnector refers to the column inches expended on the revelation that the company "splashed out on a £25,000 junket" for staff ...more »