we are worried that they used ofgem's announcement yesterday tojustify their own used ofgem's announcemento justify their own price used ofgem's announcement yesterday tojustify their own price increase today and what we really wanted to get across to consumers is that if you are on a get across to consumers is that if you are on a standard variable tariff, you could save hundreds of pounds if you just switch. british gas has already lost more than 300,000 customer accounts in the first half of this year. the energy market is changing fast. with a government price gap due by the end of the year. emma simpson, bbc news. the former attorney general, dominic grieve, has increased the pressure on borisjohnson, by threatening to leave the conservative party, if the former foreign secretary ever became leader. a number of senior conservatives including theresa may, and ruth davidson, the leader of the conservatives in scotland, have called on mrjohnson to apologise, for a newspaper article, in which he said women who wore the face veil looked like letterboxes and bank robbers. here's our politic

it's paid back £2.7 million after an investigation by ofgem, the regulator. steph has more on this.und from ofgem's investigation into this is that when you come to the end of the contract, in the last 49 days, you essentially have a switching window when you can leave british gas and go to another provider without paying any exit fees. what ofgem have found is that british gas wrongly informed 2.5 million customers that they would be charged and exit say. there would be lots you would not have moved because of that —— the exit fee. but some who did were then charged the fever leaving when they should not have been. overall, ofgem are saying british gas failed their customers who are coming to the end of their fixed contracts, and aren't any penalising them, applying charges in error. because of that —— they are u nfa i rly error. because of that —— they are unfairly penalising them. so british gas are paying people back and paying compensation as well. they have agreed to pay some money to ofgem's consumer redress fund which is all about helping people who have been badly treated.

we are worried that they used ofgem's announcement yesterday tojustify their own price increase todayoss to consumers is that if you are on a standard variable tariff, you could save hundreds of pounds if you just switch. british gas has already lost more than 300,000 customer accounts in the first half of this year. the energy market is changing fast. with a government price gap due by the end with a government price cap due by the end of the year. emma simpson, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: borisjohnson faces growing criticism of his comments about muslim women who wear the burka. more than three million british gas customers are facing a rise in prices for the second time this year. the duke of cambridge and the prime minister have attended commemorations in northern france to mark the centenary of the battle of amiens — the beginning of the end of world war one. four fax adam peaty‘s dominance in the pool continues — the british swimmer won his third gold medal of the european championships with victory in the final of the 50 metres breastroke. having already taken gold in

we have heard consultations about sort of whether ofgem should be able to put more restrictions on peoplect if the industry doesn't act, but there has been an awful lot of consultations about an awful lot of consultations about an awful lot of things coming out of this government, and yes, we will see when the budget was around that they —— whether they are prepared to ta ke they —— whether they are prepared to take action. into sting, let's return to the telegraph, uk's richest man is taking his £21 billion fortune after monaco. interesting chap. he is a joiner's son, grammar school boy, now 31 billion, dodoo potentially moving his fortune to monaco. the rumour that he might buy chelsea fc, so maybe he will buy football club, bow or maybe it is to do with a potential tax reason, as jessica spoke about earlier. he did travel to matters. surprisingly, maybe it became less fun for him during the last period, but it is not particularly transparent, the reason why he has moved to monaco. there are some speculation there, in the daily telegraph. might be summit to do with tax, yeah. but, like

an ofgem investigation found the energy firm failed and unfairly penalised customers who were comingve been refunded and paid an additional goodwill gesture. uk shop prices have risen for the first time in five years, according to the latest data from the british retail consortium. it's also warned that more price rises are to come, if the uk quits the european union without a trade deal. a stark warning from the pensions regulator that generous lump sum pay—outs could be putting pensions at risk. earlier this year it contacted 1a schemes encouraging them to consider making reductions, as a record £21 billion flowed out of defined schemes in the year to march. hello, good afternoon. welcome to the business news. we're going to be talking now about mobile phone tariffs. research commissioned by 02 suggests that half of brits feel ripped off by the fixed payments they pay on their phone contracts, with many confused about what they actually paying are for. joining us now is mark evans chief executive officer of telefonica uk. so mark, this research says half of customers say they feel

ofgem says more than 94,000 people were affected. the energy supplier has blamed a systems error.. so those 94,000 people were people who had their tariffs raised during the grace period and there was another group of people who were charged an exit charge for leaving when they shouldn‘t have been charged that. what‘s happening is, british gas is paying those people back. it has paid most of them back already and given them a goodwill gesture payment on top of that. by my calculation, the sums involved are not enormous. so for a typical customer, it would be between £10 and £50 each. but there‘s a big principle here and that‘s why the authorities have been so tough about it. that if companies are seen to interfere with our right to switch providers, take advantage of lower tariffs, and households can save upwards of £300 a year by switching to a cheaper deal, if companies are seen to discourage that, then they will be hauled over the coals. that‘s what happened to british gas and that‘s why they‘ve had to apologise profusely. a year after violence in myanmar prompted hundreds of t

yes, we tend to use it in the industry, argue that if ofgem, a regulator, effectively saying costs arewatching at home worried about their energy bill, who are thinking they are going to be seeing a big price rise coming 1st of october, what should they do? you will laugh when i say this, but they are going to need to switch. if you don't switch your energy, you're on the back foot. i was actually at a barbecue at the weekend talking to one of my friend's mums, she was shocked by the edge managed to save just by switching her energy. she was one of the higher end consumption level, so she managed to save closer to £400, but actually in that respect... it is a lot of money to be missing out on if you're not switching. switch today. that sounds like a switching. switch today. that sounds likeafun switching. switch today. that sounds like a fun barbecue! it was great. conversation going well! laughter i bet you get that a lot at family barbecues, don't you? whenever you try to talk about energy at a barbecue, people look at you. they look at the barbecue and think, that is the only energy

an ofgem investigation found the energy firm ‘failed' and ‘unfairly penalised‘ customers who were comingional goodwill gesture‘. a large cordon remains in place in belfast as firefighters continue to deal with the impact of a fire which has caused enormous damage to one of the city‘s most historic buildings. there is hope that the facade of the bank buildings — which dates from 1785, and today houses a primark store — could be saved, but the interior has been destroyed. our ireland correspondent emma vardy reports. an important part of the city‘s heritage up in flames. firefighters battled for hours yesterday to get the blaze under control. staff and shoppers were evacuated. let‘s go! as the building began to give way. people watched in horror as the victorian landmark was destroyed. firefighters worked through the night. now bank buildings is a blackened shell. you can still smell the smoke in the air here today and firefighters have said that parts of the building are still collapsing. so for the safety of pedestrians this 45 metre cordon remains in place. that means many of the shops

energy supplier npower has been fined £2.4 million by watchdog ofgem after they failed to install around but not yet in place tariffs on $200bn worth going forward, in the first—quarter figures are barclays, there were fines they pay to the us government. they have put aside money for pp! insurance payment going for. this is a legal overhang on barclays about how they raise money during the financial crisis. that is a genuine unknown for markets. the core business of barclays is performing well. the boss, jess daily, was at pains to point out how well it was performing. the future uncertainty of this legal action with future trading. thank you for your time. we have breaking news. apple... our new york correspondence has been following this in detail. she says it has got to be 20704. you argued with me and i was right. if it has become the first $1 trillion company, that would make it the most valuable company in the world. obviously, with inflation, other companies may have been that size previously. they have. i will verify it and previously. they have. i will verify itandi previously.