Review of 2013: what happened in the news in December

We like to forget about bills in the run-up to Christmas but problems with utility and telephone bills filled the news in December.

Npower made a smoke and mirror promise to freeze bills – but only if wholesale energy prices don't rise. It then, like all electricity firms, promised to pass on government cuts to green taxes. But would not say by how much.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%