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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mark Steel

'People may be freezing but let's be cheerful after Centrica announced £3.3bn profits'

Stop moaning about prices and how nothing works… let’s be ­CHEERFUL instead! Because Centrica, the company that owns British Gas, has announced record profits of £3.3billion.

If you asked everyone in the country what we should do if we had a spare £3.3bn, some people might give a boring answer, such as build a hospital.

Others might show imagination and suggest we spend it on a ski slope for pandas or ask Manchester City to run a bus garage to see if they illegally pay all the drivers £20m each.

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