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Our bills feed shareholders

Here we go again, Ofgem gives the go ahead for energy companies to increase energy bills following a £28 billion increase for upgrades. Over the years these companies when they have increase household bills have said " it is to improve and increase infrastructure, make bills cheaper for the customers." So if this is the case, just what have they been doing with the money, if they now need £28 billion for upgrades they have supposedly already been collecting for over the years? Now our bills will increase by £108 a year after Rachel Reeves said they would come down by £150. We only make a £42 saving – whoopee dodo.

I suggest instead of all these savings over all the years going to the shareholders, do what they said they had been doing and plough all the rises we have been paying into the building of a better service and infrastructure. These companies are only interested in making money and care not a jot about customer welfare or our worries of costs and this £28 billion will just go where all the other billions have gone - shareholders pockets!

Pete Lowe, Midlands

I have never trusted the OBR

So the Office for Budget Responsibility’s chairman has fell on his sword. He won’t be the first or the last. The OBR was started by George Osbourne and David Cameron in the year 2010. It is supposed to be independent.

It does provide its forecasts, but they offer insights only and should not be treated as precise. Mystic Meg’s predictions are a lot more accurate.

To me the IMF is by far the best for forecasts. I don’t take anything on board what the OBR says. I have managed it well without it for 50 years. To me its another useless money draining quango.

Ron Goodall, Midlands

Stop the loss of our farmland

How many wildlife enthusiasts know that for every acre of UK farmland lost to tree planting or re-wilding, five acres of rainforest are being felled to grow food to export to Britain? We should end this resilience on food imports and stop the loss of good farmland and grow more ourselves.

W F Kerswell, Picklescott

Trump goes East

Who would have imagined a US president supporting a Russian invasion of another state. Strange and frightening times.

Dean Scott, Bridgnorth

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