Utilities

Npower has become the fourth big six energy firm to announce a price drop this year – it's cutting the price of gas by 5.2% from 28 March. But even after the cuts its standard tariff will cost £100s more than the market's cheapest, so check now to see if you can switch and save.

Sky has today announced prices for Sky Q, its new premium TV service that launches next month – and with packages starting at £42/mth with a £99 set-up fee, it doesn't come cheap.

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.