Scottish Power has announced it will hike electricity prices by 10% and gas prices by a whopping 19% from 1 August, in a bitter blow to 2.4 million households.
Hundreds of thousands of households could pay more for their water under Government-backed plans to install meters in areas where water shortages exist.
Households have been warned to brace themselves for energy price rises as early as next month as costs for power firms continued to surge because of world crises.
25 April 2011
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