British Gas pays £20m over prepayment meter force-fitting scandal | Flipboard
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2 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“British Gas has agreed to pay £20m into a redress fund and compensate customers to settle an investigation by the regulator into the forced fitting of prepayment meters.”
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The provided evidence contains general information about British Gas, the United Kingdom, and the British Empire, but contains no mention of a £20m redress fund, a regulatory investigation, or the forced fitting of prepayment meters.
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— British Gas (trading as Scottish Gas in Scotland) is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom. It is the trading name of British Gas Trading Limited, British Gas Services Limited, Br…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Gas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Gas
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— British Gas may refer to:
British Gas plc (1987–1997), the former monopoly gas supplier in the United Kingdom
Centrica, a multinational utility company founded in 1997, which currently uses the Briti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Gas_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Gas_(disambiguation)
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— Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system originating from a gasworks. It is produced when coal is heated strongly in the absence of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas
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“Three years ago it emerged that debt agents working for British Gas had broken into the homes of vulnerable customers to fit [prepayment meters]”
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The provided evidence contains irrelevant information about the mobile network 'Three', the number three, and unrelated gas-related topics (chemical weapons, Darvaza crater). There is no evidence regarding British Gas debt agents or the installation of prepayment meters in vulnerable customers' homes.
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— The majority view among historians is that the British mandatory government considered but did not use chemical weapons in the Iraqi revolt (Ath Thawra al Iraqiyya al Kubra), for practical and politic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_British_use_of_chemica…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_British_use_of_chemica…
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— The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen: Garagum ýalkymy), also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, officially the Shining of Karakum, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near Darva…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater
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— Gas is a state of matter with neither fixed volume nor fixed shape. It is a compressible form of fluid, in contrast to a liquid. A pure gas consists of individual atoms (e.g. a noble gas like neon), o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas
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