UK suffers as Europe keeps grip on fuel

INDUSTRY and households face at least five years of rising energy bills as gas prices soar. The prediction was delivered to 30 leading gas producers and large manufacturing and generating companies at a briefing hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry and attended by new Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks.

The centrepiece of last week’s London seminar was a document into gas prices by Global Insight, the forecasting consultancy. It said that industry paid