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Savvy shoppers deliver Christmas sales boost for Asda

Britain's leading lowest price supermarket rounded off one of its best years with a solid Christmas trading performance that beat its sales expectation despite some industry predictions that 2008 would be the worst Christmas for retailers for more than 20 years.

BT £24m giveaway helps 14m customers say no to 0870

BT has offered some New Year cheer to 14 million customers by becoming the first UK telephone company to make calls to 0870 and 0845 numbers free.

ITV shows to be made available on demand by Virgin Media

ITV and Virgin Media announce a deal to make some of the nation’s favourite television shows available on demand to Virgin Media’s digital TV subscribers with ITV Player, ITV’s on demand catch up service.

Russian gas crisis could mean ‘nyet' to price cuts

Gas is our most heavily used fuel, however, supplies are dependent on imports which currently accounts for over a third of all our gas.

Paid-for TV subscriptions and mobile bills most likely to go unpaid

Paid-for TV subscription is the payment most people feel it would be acceptable to default on if they were feeling the pinch financially (22 per cent), according to research from Direct Line.

Confused.com: Scottish Power PriceSure fixed energy plan

Gareth Kloet, head of energy at Confused.com, comments on ScottishPower's announcement that it is cutting the cost of gas on its PriceSure fixed energy plans:

Half of Brits think Broadband is too expensive

The results from 804 respondents to ISPreview.co.uk's latest survey have revealed that over half (52 per cent) of all broadband connected Brits think their Internet Service Provider (ISP) is too expensive.

A bumpy ride for consumer confidence in 2008

The last Nationwide Consumer Confidence Index of 2008 shows that confidence fell further from 51 to 47 during December. Confidence in the labour market continues to dominate the overall index and news of troubled retailers and redundancies in the motor industry are likely to have affected sentiment during the month.

Scottish Power cuts fixed price deal by 10 per cent

Commenting on Scottish Power cutting its fixed price deal by 10 per cent, Scott Byrom, utilities manager at price comparison site, moneysupermarket.com said: "Today's move by Scottish Power makes the PriceSure deal the cheapest dual fuel fixed tariff available on the market.

Scottish Power launches PriceSure - A new fixed price energy plan

Scottish Power has announced that it is launching a new fixed-price energy plan, PriceSure, which will offer guaranteed prices until 31st January 2010 and will allow customers to save approximately 10% on current standard gas prices. The new product replaces the previous Discounted Energy Offer.

Scottish Power to cut cost of gas on fixed price energy plan by 10%

Scottish Power's announcement that it is cutting the cost of gas on its PriceSure fixed price energy plans by 10% could be the biggest hint yet about the level of price cuts consumers can expect from energy suppliers during the first quarter of 2009, says uSwitch.com.