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Electricity bill was a balti from the blue, says curry house man
From the archive, first published Monday 26th Sep 2005.
A RESTAURANT owner was left scratching his
head when he received a quarterly electricity bill for £7,000.
Ataur Rahman, the owner of Sylhet Balti Tandoori in Lowesmoor, Worcester, can usually expect to pay about £350 every three months, and was shocked to receive the demand from Worcester-based supplier npower for 20 times that.
He said: "I kept going back to check it. In fact, I didn't query it for a couple of days because I thought I was reading it wrong.
"I know we use a lot of electricity but not that much."
Npower investigated after being contacted by the Worcester News and have sent a correct bill for closer to the amount Mr Rahman usually pays.
A spokeswoman said: "It was clearly a billing error and as well as sending Mr Rahman his proper bill, we are going to credit him £50 for any inconvenience caused."
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