Energy prices in the UK have increased by twenty per cent in 2011 as wholesale of costs of fuels have gone up.<br /><br />This has forced an increasing number of homes into fuel poverty, which is currently defined as spending more than ten per cent of household income on fuel. <br /><br />The number of homes technically in fuel poverty has gone up almost fivefold in the past eight years.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from Newcastle, the UK's fuel poverty capital.
