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5 bites from the latest news

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Good afternoon! Here we are on this raining day with your daily quick update from London: five bites from the latest news specially selected for you and your needs.

  • MONEY : The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has decided to once again raise food prices. The shop prices rose by 3.2 per cent: the highest rate since it started the index two years ago and up from 2.5 per cent in June. Food prices were 9.5 per cent higher compared with July last year, against 7 per cent in June, says the Timesonline.co.uk. And we, the lucky customers that we are, have to pay the price increase of energy and transport costs for the supermarket!
  • OLYMPICS : What is the biggest problem in Beijing: the pollution or the protesters?! Athletes and visitors don’t seem to care about either. Any difficulty in conveying the latest results to the rest of the world has been lessened by a team of 4,000 IT professionals who will be working to communicate competition results to participants, spectators and the media alike within 0.3 seconds. 21,600 journalists are waiting to share their news with four billion TV viewers in their homes.
  • TRANSPORT : Passengers prefer cheap airlines over British Airways. The traditional summer travel boom never took off this year as British Airways aircrafts are flying with a quarter of their seats unfilled. The timesonlin.co.uk reports British Airways carried 94,000 fewer passengers than in July last year as higher fares and the worsening economic environment led to weaker demand. In the meantime Ryanair and Easyjet fill up their flights with offers and smart prices, selling millions of cheap tickets.
  • CULTURE : Whilst we are waiting for the famous Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, we can enjoy watching stand up comedy and unique performances in Camden Town, where the Camden Fringe Festival is on from 28th of July to 24th of August. During the 4 weeks we will have 316 performances (of 100 different shows) across 3 venues, a collection of experimental new theatre, comedy, musicals, poetry, improvisation and story-telling.

British Gas: the biggest one-off increase in energy bills

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Businesses and homes, beware: The biggest gas increase ever has hit us! The Telegraph.co.uk heads with the article, “British Gas hits customers with biggest one-off increase in energy bills ever recorded”. Families are paying £400 more a year for their energy than they were at the start of the year. The price increases, people tremble and the British Gas owners become richer everyday. The Times Online reveals that “British Gas owner makes almost £1bn profit”. BBC News speaks about “Anger over £1bn Centrica profits” and the Guardian.co.uk says: “British Gas provokes fury with biggest ever price rise”.

It’s a neverending history that splits the society: we need to use energy and we must save it. In the last years our society has to become more respectful of the world’s resources and the recent price increase of all the kinds of energy has helped the new saving policy. But even if the environmental activism is taking advantage, common people are scared. The Earth claims respect, but on one side billions of pounds profit earned by energy companies on the other millions worries about the escalation of the prices. Business Made Simple has addressed the problem and invited you to get involved and say what you think about the crisis. British Gas has promised it will not increase its bills again before the end of the year, but most energy experts were expecting a further round of price increases this winter. Can customers look on the bright side of this unbelievable increase?! What do you think?