THIS COLUMN has for ages been calling for taxpayer-owned renewable energy-generation – probably principally wind-turbines. Allowing for set-up, maintenance and distribution costs, such a system could use local or regional grids to supply consumers with electricity free at the point of delivery. The idea is that renewable energy-provision could be regarded in the same …
FOR MONTHS, Bronterre News has repeatedly exposed a glaring injustice which is clobbering households throughout Britain with electricity bills £400 or £500 a year higher than justified. Unless this scandalous anomaly is sorted out quickly, that excess will rise by hundreds of pounds more from this October, and again in January. This autumn …
A CALAMITY that played out in rural Scotland last winter could be repeated in other isolated parts of Britain – unless there is determined public and media vigilance and raucous protest to head off the threat. It was during an evening last November that an elderly man’s house caught fire half a mile from …
THE GREAT electricity price rip-off persists, ensuring that households all over Britain continue to receive bills hundreds of pounds higher than they should be based on the fuel mixes used in power-generation. Mid and north Wales are particularly badly affected. The regions’ many homes without mains gas, and which therefore use more electricity, are particularly …
THIS SPRING’S swingeing energy price rises will see households in Ceredigion, one of the poorest places in Europe, asked to fork out a potentially crippling £863 extra a year, well above the UK average rise of £598. As energy regulator Ofgem raises the price cap, the county will be the worst hit in Wales …
SO WHOLESALE gas prices are rocketing and we’re alerted to probable soaring gas and electricity bills after a likely doubling of the energy price-cap in April. How to react? Send an emotionally controlled note to Vladimir Putin asking if he’d mind terribly lowering the price of Russian gas? Try to master the art of …
IT HAS been like trying to get blood from a stone, but bit by tortuous bit the truth is being dragged out about how this pandemic started. That it has been such a gargantuan struggle is largely down to governments, politicians and large chunks of the media deciding to resolutely look the other way, …
Or a tale of journalists as fake outsiders with bruised personas NOT SO LONG ago, British media hostility towards Julian Assange was pretty much the norm. If there has for a while now been a marked softening of attitude, the long-lived peculiar, and largely unanalysed, animosity of the bulk of British publications and broadcasters towards …
National Library of Wales silent on plan to release thousands of publicly-owned pictures for prestigious new Aberystwyth art gallery EACH YEAR, about 70,000 visitors flock to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, a majority, probably, to see its scintillating collection of more than 2,500 oil paintings. At Swansea’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, hundreds …
£15,000, 14pc, rise as care-workers, cleaners told: you’re worth 1.75pc CEREDIGION council knows it has no defence against the indefensible. So it has decided it won’t even make a stab at finding one. It knows there is absolutely nothing convincing it can say that would let it off the hook over its stunningly unjustifiable …
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