ENERGY company EDF says it is freezing prices for the second consecutive winter.

So how come it is sending out millions of letters informing customers that from November 10 it is increasing its prices?

EDF must have got mixed up with the meaning of the word to freeze and it is not alone.

The Government has just launched a multi-million pound Get Ready For Winter campaign to advise people how to keep warm this winter.

If it is anything like the last one in the Nineties it will have zero effect.

Then we were prescribed hot porridge for students and an extra woolly for the elderly.

Stephen Dixon, Redcar.