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Tehran is in shock – and we have fled with heavy hearts

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:National   来源:Editorial  查看:  评论:0
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.Although the energy cap changes every three months, the regulator illustrates the effect of this with the annual bill for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity.

Tehran is in shock – and we have fled with heavy hearts

This typical household is assumed to use 11,500 kWh of gas and 2,700 kWh of electricity a year with a single bill for gas and electricity, settled by direct debit.The 7% fall will mean a typical annual bill for a dual-fuel customer paying by direct debit will cost £1,720, down from the current level of £1,849.It will also more than reverse the £111 increase under the current price cap, which came into force at the start of April.

Tehran is in shock – and we have fled with heavy hearts

However, prices will still be higher than a year earlier, and significantly above levels seen at the start of the decade.High bills in recent years have also led to ballooning levels of customer debt to suppliers, with just under £4bn owed.

Tehran is in shock – and we have fled with heavy hearts

Dame Clare Moriarty, chief executive at Citizens Advice, said the latest energy price cap announcement would be "cold comfort to the millions paying off a mountain of debt on top of their monthly costs".

"The government has said it hopes to provide more support to pensioners this winter, but we know that people with children are often struggling most of all with energy," she said.The stories were selected and translated into English from Kannada, which is spoken in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, by Deepa Bhasthi who will share the £50,000 prize.

In her acceptance speech, Mushtaq thanked readers for letting her words wander into their hearts."This book was born from the belief that no story is ever small; that in the tapestry of human experience, every thread holds the weight of the whole," she said.

"In a world that often tries to divide us, literature remains one of the last sacred spaces where we can live inside each other's minds, if only for a few pages," she added.Bhasthi, who became the first Indian translator to win an International Booker, said that she hoped that the win would encourage more translations from and into Kannada and other South Asian languages.

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