British Gas customers will benefit from a 10% cut in electricity charges, says parent company Centrica, as a result of falling wholesale energy prices which have been on the decline since October last year.
British Gas is the UK’s largest residential energy supplier and says the price cuts that become effective immediately will reduce bills for [...]

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Entries from May 2009
UK Finance: British Gas cut electricity charges
John Williams - Friday 08.05.09, 12:18pm
Tags: Finance News · Personal Finance · UK economy
UK Finance: Woolwich cut mortgage rates
John Williams - Wednesday 06.05.09, 12:25pm
The UK’s fifth biggest mortgage lender, The Woolwich has announced cuts on many of it’s mortgage packages and relaunched it’s lifetime tracker and five year fixed rate loans, to buyers with as little as 20% deposit.
Today’s report in the Daily Mail sees the move as a sure sign that competition is returning to the mortgage [...]
Tags: Banking · Finance News · Personal Finance · Property Market · UK economy · UK interst rates
UK Finance: Tesco cut prices in the Republic of Ireland
John Williams - Tuesday 05.05.09, 14:35pm
Concerned by shoppers from the Republic of Ireland flocking across the border to Northern Ireland supermarkets to buy the same produce cheaper, due to the devaluing pound against the euro, Tesco have cut prices in their border stores on 12,500 items.
Tesco have slashed the prices on goods such as milk, meat and poultry in stores [...]
Tags: Finance News · Retail · UK economy








