edf has said electricity will go up next month, and now we have scottishpower.rozen until august, but aeon and sse have also had a price freeze in place over the winter. what about them ? freeze in place over the winter. what about them? we wait to hear. sse tell me that there are price freeze will be in place until at least april. at least — maybe a little bit of hope there for its customers. simon, thank you. the london firm pimlico plumbers has lost its challenge over the employment status of a former worker. the court of appeal upheld the ruling that it has to offer workers, hired on an ad—hoc basis, the same holiday and pensions rights as full—time staff. the head of the company had said the employee involved had wanted to "have his cake and eat it." our industry correspondent, john moylan, reports. is pimlico plumbers is one of london's best—known firms. it is claimed that plumbers here can earn more than £100,000 a year, but they are all self—employed, so they don't have the raw it's —— the rights enjoyed by employees. when gary smith went to a tribunal,

scottishpower putting up prices.prices from more than 1 million of its customers on standard tariffs, not the fixed once and then british gas saying it is winter price freeze will now be extended through until august. evidence that they do not move as they herd as they are often accused of doing. scottishpower say it is harder to get hold of gas and electricity at cheap prices, they have to pay for subsidies for new smart meters, british gas say that they have kept their running costs down. the big question now after that good news for 5 million british gas customers is what two other big companies, sse and aeon are going to do because they also had a winter price freeze but they have not said what they will do next and they our top story this evening: the health secretary tells the bbc waiting times in a&e in hospitals in england are completely unacceptable. history, rivalry, aggression, humour is all part of the six nations. i look back at the build—up and forward to the rugby here in cardiff. 0n sportsday, who can

edf put up their prices recently and today, scottishpower announced a price rise of almost 8%.ces but they have managed not to pass those on by reducing their internal costs? is this a marketing strategy? is this something innovative they are doing in their business setup? well, we know that british gas has been creating a lot of efficiencies internally and that's what is enabling their cost reductions. we have seen wholesale costs increased by 36% since april, so it is reassuring for customers that they are going to protect them from those price increases but when standard variable tariffs are 66% of what the uk are on and they are so much more expensive than the cheapest deals on the market, people really shouldn't be accepting these freezes. they should be fixing and protecting themselves from future price rises. it is natural that we should be expecting our bills to go up with that wholesale price increase though, isn't it? yes, and ofgem announced a few weeks ago that there wasn't any real evidence to support a need for significant price rises from wholesale increases in t

scottishpower has raised its energy prices, but british gas says prices will freeze for its customersuntil august. now on bbc news, it's a year until the winter olympics in south korea. nick hope and david mcdaid look at team gb‘s leading medal prospects, and the events to watch out for. historically at the winter olympics british athletes have often found themselves left out in the cold. the dominating figure at these games... he is only 21 it was mostly the preserve of other nations. he is reading now and he crosses the line and new olympic record holder. but over time, great britain has gradually warmed to winter sport. over time, great britain has gradually warmed to winter sportm is olympic gold for great britain. great round of applause. surely it will be called for great britain. and there was success last time as tea m and there was success last time as team gb equalled their best ever medal count. he is an olympic champion. jenny jones, great britain bronze medallist. great britain are in the olympic final. the youngest ever to win a medal in olympic curling. next year and so