heating overrunning, and things like this. but as we enter the spring and we start to switch our heating off, then obviously electric devices become a little bit more important. every little helps at the moment of course but most of the increase in energy bills is not down to customer behaviour. the higher energy cap is out of our control and it could go even higher in october. from this month, some people will have started to receive a £150 council tax rebate to help with energy bills, as part of government measures to help with the cost of living. but a lot of people will still be looking for any way possible to bring the costs down. it certainly makes you think twice about switching appliances off at the mains, doesn t it, especially when you think about what you could be saving? charging your phone, charging a laptop stop. find
similar. you canjust wander here, it is attracting things like bees and butterflies and it is very attractive. it is a cold start today, first in scotland, northern england and northern ireland and the forecast today is east west split. in the east there is a lot of low cloud extending into the midlands but in the west we have brighter skies with some sunshine around. an outside chance of a shower is a bit more cloud develops through the afternoon. the cloud in the east will linger but in eastern scotland it will go into the north sea. breezy conditions across the south east and english channel, feeling cool under the low cloud. 14 of 15 top temperature in the west in the sunshine. this evening, and overnight, we hang on in the east and the midlands but elsewhere it will disperse leaving clear skies. a weather front sinking south will
ben can explain more. the lights are the easy ones are things but there are these so called devices. these offending items are scarily called vampire devices, because they re phantom suckers of power. you might think they re switched off but they re costing you money. and as you say every penny counts at the moment. we ve been talking a lot energy bills over the past few weeks, the price cap went up at the beginning of the month meaning higher bills for millions of us. there aren t cheaper deals to be had so some of these costs are unavoidable. but, today british gas told us that unused electronics left plugged in, turned on or in standby mode, are pushing up some people s bills without them knowing. the company s research found one in five of us didn t know some items use power even when they re not being used. lots of us admitted to not turning things off completely. so which items are the biggest cuplrits? the tv you re watching me on now is one of the biggest drains on power costin
can see how she could find that amusing but if it was being used as amusing but if it was being used as a ploy, it would be annoying. there was a real brainstorm in things yesterday that government departments could do around regulations which means that they could cost people less money to comply with them. a few ideas have emerged, just ideas at this stage, for example, changing the rules around childcare for the number of adults that have to be there for the number of children so you could have more children and fewer adults in the childcare could cost less? instead of having an mot for your car every year, could you help people save 55 quid and have it every two years? there is also an argument in the cabinet or a discussion in the cabinet, long running, about cutting import taxes on food from abroad, which could potentially make food a bit cheaper? there are pros and cons for each idea, that they are not government policy yet. the danger for the government in this situation