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Energy price cap rise: 'I've taken a second job'

Daniel Cooke, a construction site manager from Somerset, has taken a second job to pay his family's rising energy bills. Many families will face higher bills now that the energy price cap has been lifted.

Video by Andy Alcroft, and Dougal Shaw

31 March 2022

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