Utilities

Sky has today announced prices for Sky Q, its new premium TV service that launches next month – and with packages starting at £42/mth with a £99 set-up fee, it doesn't come cheap.

SSE has become the second big six energy firm to reveal price cuts this year, but it's only dropping gas prices by 5.3%, and only from 29 March. Even after that small decrease, the company's standard tariff will cost on average almost £300/yr more than the cheapest.

Drivers filling up at Asda and Morrisons will pay under the £1/litre mark for petrol from today as the supermarkets lead the way in the Christmas price war.

The prices providers pay for energy – known as wholesale prices – have fallen to historic lows with gas prices dropping by 20% over the last year, and electricity prices down 15% over the same period.

Energy provider Utilita is to pay £560,000 to customers and to a charity after regulator Ofgem found it blocked 40,000 households from switching to other suppliers.

Nottingham City Council has launched "Robin Hood Energy", which it says is the first council-owned, not-for-profit energy company to supply households across England, Scotland and Wales since nationalisation of the industry in 1948. But is it any good?

Wholesale prices – what energy providers pay for gas and electricity – continue to fall and 'remain very low', which some experts say could result in price cuts for households.

Millions of BT customers unwittingly opted in to paying £5/month for their previously 'free' BT Sport package can get a no quibble refund from the giant by calling or emailing it, if they've no interest in the full package.