The cost of living crisis is hitting every household in the region, but a Consett woman has told of her shock when she received her updated bill from her energy company.
Josie - who lives near the town centre - panicked when she realised that her monthly payment was increasing FIVE times what she was paying before the energy crisis hit at the end of last year. And she said that the massive hike had tipped her family from being financially secure to not knowing if they would make ends meet at the end of every month.
Josie, 35, who didn't want us to use her surname, told of her horror when she learned that her energy bill - which was £98 per month last October, had risen to a massive £523 a month, leaving her and her husband Dave, 40, wondering how others less fortunate than they are will cope.
