£1,200 a minute Gas Profit

From THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, 17th February 2007

British Gas is making £1,200-a-minute in profits after landing customers with crippling bill rises. The Sunday Express can reveal the energy giant is poised to unveil huge annual profits of almost £600million- six times the amount it made last year. The figure is disclosed just weeks after the company imposed a 15% price hike on its 16m customers- putting annual fuel bills up by an average of £130 a year.