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A local teacher said: "How can energy companies justify their profits trebling while we freeze?"

One campaigner claims that putting vulnerable people onto a pre-payment meter is a like disconnecting their power.

Protesters take to luxury beds and sofas in London store to call for action on ‘sky-rocketing’ energy bills

Just Stop Oil activists got into a bed and laid on sofas in the Harrods department store, in Knightsbridge, London, before being escorted out by a reported 20 security guards

Protest groups have taken coordinated action across London on what they have called the Fuel Poverty Day of Action. Campaigners from the Don’t Pay UK and Fuel Poverty Action groups held what they called a “warm up” at the British Museum and Stratford Westfield on Saturday afternoon. The groups held…

CAMPAIGNERS have occupied Scottish Power HQ in protest against rising energy bills and “sky-rocketing” levels of fuel poverty, according to…

Don’t Pay UK said campaigners had bedded down with blankets, sleeping bags and hot water bottles in the foyer of Scottish Power HQ

Local campaigners have joined Extinction Rebellion Scotland protestors outside the entrance to Scottish Power HQ to demand government action against rising fuel poverty.

Small-scale fishers have long suffered discrimination in South Africa