BBC News has been told a menu of options has been worked up in Whitehall to help struggling households.

Energy industry sources are optimistic the government will back a plan to freeze the energy cap.

Either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will be announced as the new PM later today.

A freeze on energy bills is one of a number of options for tackling the soaring cost of gas and electricity due to be presented to the new prime minister this week.

Ms Truss’s team is understood to have been working on a support package for energy bills “for weeks” and an announcement on what they will do is pencilled in for this Thursday.

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Charlotte, from west London, who did not want her full name published, told the BBC how she felt blamed by her bank and made to feel like a “criminal”.

She believes thieves accessed her card PIN via the phone app, but Santander said she must have disclosed it.

The bank has apologised to her and refunded her money.

Charlotte went to exercise at a Virgin Active gym in Chiswick after work on 24 August when all of her belongings, including her bank cards and phone were stolen.

A woman has described how criminals raided her gym locker, stole her wallet and went on an £8,000 shopping spree while she was exercising.

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The Dutch month ahead wholesale gas price, a benchmark for Europe, was up as much as 30% in early trading on Monday.

The Nord Stream 1 pipeline had been due to reopen on Saturday after being shut for three days.

But Russia’s state-owned energy firm Gazprom said it had found a leak.

Gas prices have soared on concerns over energy supplies after Russia announced it would not reopen its main gas pipeline to Europe.

Europe has accused Russia of using gas supplies to blackmail European countries because of the Ukraine conflict, which Moscow denies.

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Nandi Bushell, from Ipswich, joined the band onstage and took Hawkins’ place on the drum stool for Learn To Fly.

Hawkins died earlier this year while the band were in South America.

Nandi said: “It was amazing to play Wembley, but at the same time it was really sad.”

A 12-year-old drummer said she had mixed emotions performing at Wembley Stadium as part of a memorial concert for Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

She was one of many musicians to fill Hawkins’ seat on Saturday in London, including Blink-182’s Travis Barker, Roger Taylor’s son Rufus and Hawkins’ 16-year-old son, Shane.

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Ministers and officials are now getting to the same conclusion.

How could you do it? There are a couple of ways.

Scottish Power suggested freezing all bills at current level of £1,971 for two years at a cost of nearly £100bn. That was dismissed by the current chancellor (until tomorrow) as it was not targeted enough at poorer households.

Ovo suggested that richer households would start to pay more on top of the frozen rate as they either earned and used more energy. This would be cheaper but would still run to many tens of billions of pounds according to Ovo’s chief executive Stephen Fitzpatrick.

Energy bosses have insisted for some time that a government-backed “superfund” from which they could borrow to lower or freeze bills “is the only game in town” – as one told me last week.

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