almost a year after russia invaded ukraine the bbc sjohn simpson talks to president zelensky about his country s future. because of soaring energy costs. and coming up on sportsday on the the bbc news channel. as they prepare for this summers world cup, euro 2020 winners england take on south korea this evening in their first game of the arnold clark cup. good evening. the family of the missing woman nicola bulley have called for people to focus on finding her and to stop speculating about her private life. it s nearly three weeks since the 45 year old disappeared on a dog walk in lancashire after dropping her two children at school. detectives have been criticised for revealing very personal details about her struggles with alcohol and the menopause yesterday. tonight lancashire police say they have referred themselves to the independent office for please contact over contact they had with nicola bulley more than a fortnight before she disappeared. danny savage reports. n
to tell him to leave and he was quite adamant to stay and get his job done anyway. so i just felt quite, i suppose, scared. british gas has since removed the metre, apologised to emily and suspended the agents involved. now some ask why centrica can t use its big production profits to lower retail bills. but competition rules prevent it from selling the energy it produces more cheaply to its own retail arm than other companies. the company paid £1 billion in uk tax last year including £52 million in recently introduced windfall levies and expects to pay £2.5 billion over the next four years. uk oiland gas companies now pay a tax rate of 75% on uk profits. labour said today that is not enough and urged the government to abolish rules that allow companies to offset new uk fossil fuel investments against those profits. centrica say they don t expect to ever make
centrica s gas and electricity generation business benefited from energy prices that hit new records after the russian invasion of ukraine. you can see the price charts just there. but centrica is really two different businesses. the part that produces gas and generates electricity from nuclear and renewables accounted for 98% of its record profits. its retail arm, british gas made, 2% of that, £72 million, supplying over seven million residential customers, so a £10 profit per customer. british gas may not be making much money, but it made headlines when agents for british gas were filmed forcing customers in arrears onto pre payment meters. all energy companies have now been ordered to halt those installations. now some ask why centrica can t use its big production profits to lower retail bills. but competition rules prevent it from selling the energy it produces more cheaply to its own retail arm than other companies. the company paid £1 billion