british gas suspends its force fitting of prepament meters following a report that it was imposing them on vulnerable customers. its chief executive, chris 0 shea has apologised. there chris 0 shea has apologised. is nothing that i can 5 can there is nothing that i can say that can express the horror i had when i heard this, when i saw this. it is completely unacceptable, that language is completely unacceptable. the largest ever outbreak of bird flu is now infecting mammals in the uk. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. europe s biggest energy firm, shell, has reported record annual profits of nearly $40 billion in 2022, more than double what it made in the previous year. the profits are the biggest in the firm s history boosted by higher energy prices since the start of the ukraine war. shell has already said it will pay tax in the uk for the first time since 2017 as a result of the government s windfall tax. let s take a closer look at t
exactly. like keir starmer is a massive football fan. he likes going to football grounds. that also makes sense for them politically because of the image it projects, but he is a genuine football fan. some of them aren t always, and we did have a bit of a laugh about it on our show this morning. but the main thing we talked about this morning on the programme, not exclusively, but we talked a lot about health and social care because there s been lots of chat this week about it, partly because big plans for social care have not featured in the labour and tory manifestos, even though we know it s a huge issue for listeners and viewers and people around the country. but the lib dems, interestingly, have got.they ve majored on social care in health in their manifesto. and hilary gordon, newscaster thank you for your message says, thank goodness we have some politicians who are proposing that all parties get together to look for a long term solution to the nhs and social care
Prices last year, particularly natural gas, and shell in particular has a very lucrative liquefied natural gas business and that has driven the profits. but the irony is that only a few years ago many people were writing off the oil companies saying the oil industry is over, but we are seeing today record prices driven by record profits, driven by higher prices because of the crisis. ., ~ , . , the crisis. one of the key arguments the crisis. one of the key arguments the government the crisis. one of the key arguments the government has the crisis. one of the key arguments the government has made the crisis. one of the key arguments the government has made for- the crisis. one of the key arguments the government has made for not i the government has made for not imposing bigger taxes, the government has made for not imposing biggertaxes, including imposing bigger taxes, including windfall taxes, imposing biggertaxes, including windfall taxes, on the gas and oil giants, is that i