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@STVNews Unfortunately he believes his own God-like status and the shit he wrote in his book. If he was so super he'd have kept it in his pants and respected his wife and kids.

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@qikipedia What a shit game if you're colour blind like 1 in 8 males ans 1 in 12 females. @colourblindorg #1in8

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@PaulShack56 @MartinSLewis Do you really think 53 million people depend on heating oil? Give your head a wobble

@MartinSLewis It's not even £1 per person. A drop in the ocean.

The PM listed 5 things they'll do to "protect the cost of living". Most just reiteratedexisting situation, the new thing, as expected was £53m to help vulnerable with home heating oil costs. We'll starting digging into that ASAP. Will update here when I know more.

@dadbegg @JamTarts The pressure is now on and this years top 6 has never been tighter. Hearts 2 games v Motherwell could play big part in where title goes. Home game v The R*ngers for 2nd?

@straaheid @JamTarts Cruel. There will be a few more twists before the season is over.

Big 20 minutes coming up for #Hearts.

Bet there are thousands of publicans wishing they had enough punters to be able to bar some whenever they chose. Scriptwriters obviously livenon a different planet. #Corrie

@BBCNorthEast Imagine the countrywide outcry if petrol and diesel rose by same percentage overnight.

Heating oil protection calls after 'shock' price rises bbc.in/4sCayGf

@AberdeenFC Disgrace. #CormackOut

Full-time.

@MartinSLewis @Ed_Miliband Our usual supplier and normally most competitive, have stopped quoting & advised orders will be accepted & cost advised day before delivery in approx 6 days time. It's now a lottery & we now hope worst of winter is past so we can keep heating off longer. Semi-rural NE Scotland.

Just got off the phone after @Ed_Miliband called to discuss in detail the problems people are facing with domestic energy bills and heating oil. Here's what I fed through - your feedback would be useful... 1. HEATING OIL: This is the most immediate concern as many, often in rural areas or N. Ireland, are refuelling their tanks. Prices have rocketed, a few even suggest they've nearly doubled in a week. My biggest concerns are... a) Those who can't afford the new price b) Lack of specific regulation as heating oil isn't covered by Ofgem (though that's a longer-term issue) c) Some have anecdotally reported existing booked-in orders being cancelled, and being asked to rebook at much higher prices. I want to firm up whether this is widespread... I'd like to hear specific examples of how much prices are rising, especially of point c) and will pass them through to the Department for Energy. 2. CONSUMER GAS & ELECTRICITY BILLS: This is less imminent, but a potential ticking cost time-bomb. I'm focused on the Eng, Scot & Welsh system here... - In the short term: Most bills are protected from the spike in wholesale energy prices as the Energy Price Cap is set based on a significant time-lag. In fact it is locked in to DROP 6.7% in April. Those not on the Price Cap are mainly on existing fixes (which, due to unprecedented prior policy changes, will see most suppliers cut existing fix rates on 1 April, typically by 7% to 9%) so are also price protected for now. One current concern is the lack of availability of cheap fixes. While that's frustrating, in the short term it means those whose existing fixes are ending, will just (hopefully temporarily) need to move on to the Price Cap. There are also a minority of homes who are immediately affected, eg, those on time-of-use tariffs. These include Octopus Agile & Tracker, which move half-hourly or daily with wholesale rates. These are sophisticated user tariffs, and if necessary people have the short term option to switch back to a Price Cap tariff (though do check for restrictions on how long before you can switch back). So while none of that is great, it isn't crisis point. - The end of May is likely crunch time: This is usually when the next Price Cap (July to Sept) is announced. It currently seems very likely it will rise, though just how much all depends on how long lived the current energy price spike is. Yet the key is whether wholesale rates have dropped back down or not by that point. If they have, while the Price Cap rise will annoy many, it won't be critical for most for two reasons i) The July to Sept Price Cap is usually the lowest use period. So, even if typical use rose £200/yr, in practice this'd just be, at a guess, an extra £30 to £40 paid over the period. If by then wholesale rates are down, a substantial cut would be expected for the next (Oct) Cap. ii) The rate new fixes are set at is based on wholesale rates, so if wholesale rates have dropped by then, the big push should be to get people off the Price Cap and onto fixes which could possibly look to be 20%+ cheaper, avoiding any price hike. That should then leave only those unwilling or unable to switch paying more - the latter is an issue the govt would need to concern itself with at that point. Yet if rates haven't dropped back down by May, and it looks like it'll stay high so the October Price Cap will rise too, and no cheap fixes are available, then things get into real problem territory. The government needs to be (and I suspect is starting to) planning now for that eventuality in case more hard-core intervention is needed. Martin PS I said I'd be off socials for the weekend, as normal, but thought this was worth coming back on for. I'm now resuming my weekend break from socials.

@DudeAdhd @MartinSLewis Government (both at WM and Holyrood) don't care about energy costs for those with oil as main heating option especially if you're outside central belt. Most of us cannot afford to change to solar/heat pumps even with jump-through-hoops grants.

@MartinSLewis We have an oil burner, living in rural Scotland. The govt is going to have to do something about people living in rural areas.

The home heating oil situation is terrible for many unlucky enough to be about to refill. The solutions of 'comparison' and 'collective buying' are weak at this time. The outrage is this is an unregulated, unprotected, market (we've long called for that to change). We are subserving many, especially those who live in rural communities.

@Pleasantfucker @MartinSLewis Ditched Boiler Juice 4 years ago when their quoted price was 20% higher than any of the local distributors with no "service charge". Their preferred supplier was lowest of them all too. Found their customer service to be poor too. Support local.

@MartinSLewis I had an order in, paid for with boiler juice. Before it kicked off. They just cancelled it saying they can’t honour the delivery. But I can reorder at the new price. Surely they can’t do this?

@dadbegg Depends on if it's still 1-1 with 15 mins to go. That would give them 25 mins to get the winner and keep their title hopes alive. #COYR

Odds on a red? #Nilsem

@fesshole Support local

I live in a block of flats above a Greggs. In October I started a new job in a shopping mall with a Greggs. I have not cooked anything since I started the new job.

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@dadbegg @OctopusEnergy We've been on the waiting list for a smart meter (electric only) for over a year with @OctopusEnergy so we can use EV tariff during night. Been customer for 5+ years and dont want to change but it getting ridiculous now.

They keep trumpeting that they are the No1 energy supplier, but our experience of @OctopusEnergy is anything but that. Had smart meters installed 5th November. The gas meter has never worked! But we've been waiting weeks for an engineer to even make an appointment to fix it.

@BBCNorthEast Maybe if the ref wasn't on the Cellic team bus he'd have been able to postpone the game sooner.

Celtic query late Aberdeen postponement with SPFL bbc.in/4c9Ltxk

@ABZ_Airport Instead of raising drop off charge to £7, reducing the amount of drop-off income with more now likely to drop off at the petrol station, how about cutting it to £2 & probably increasing income. £2 isn't a lot for most.£7 can feed a couple of kids for a day. #greed

@AbzPodcast Maccy Dees close at 11

That's not yer man "Shanks" wanting taken off at a critical time in a Cup game again, is it?

@BBCSportScot Hahahahahahaahah

A perfect penalty shootout from Falkirk to knock Hearts out of the Scottish Cup! 🤯 Hearts:✅✅✅❌✅ Falkirk:✅✅✅✅✅ #BBCFootball #ScottishCup

@STVNews Nowhere near Glasgow & West but @STVNews don't know where Aberdeen is now. Bring back Grampian TV

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