britain s largest energy supplier, centrica, is to reveal record profits today on the back of a surge in wholesale gas prices linked to the war in ukraine, just weeks after suspending the forced installation of prepayment meters over concerns of its treatment of vulnerable customers. many families are struggling to pay their energy bills, with a quarter losing sleep over it. centrica s boss chris o shea has been urged to waive his bonus. kathryn porter is an energy consultant and founder of watt logic. by by any one s numbers, £3 billion, it is a huge amount of money and it s going to mean a huge amount of criticism today as well from people across the board. is centrica profiteering in your view? board. is centrica profiteering in your view? no, i don t think the are in your view? no, i don t think they are profiteering, - in your view? no, i don t think they are profiteering, the - they are profiteering, the record profits are driven by its upstream business, production o
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0n the lockdown, scotlands first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said while there are optimistic signs its working, until theres solid evidence, its unlikely that restrictions will be lifted. It comes as one of the European Countries worst hit by the pandemic, spain, relaxes some of the restrictions it announced last month, allowing manufacturing and construction workers to return. And an nhs boss has warned the number of protective gowns available to front line nhs staff in parts of the uk has become critically low in recent days. 0ur Health Correspondent katharine da costa is with me. Another very miserable number again today, the number of people who have died of coronavirus in the last 2a hours, 717. But we look every day and every week at the trends in terms of the number of deaths and cases so terms of the number of deaths and cases so how do you read this . Thats right, often you see a delay in reporting deaths over at weekends as we saw last weekend and with this being the ankle
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