Utilities

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.

More than five million BT Sport customers have either been automatically opted into paying up to £141/year when they previously got it 'free', or they face a steep price rise. We explain how you can beat the hikes.