Sentence examples for hike charges from inspiring English sources

Each year around this time the phone companies take their cue from BT and hike charges.

Insisting that "there will be no ability for Heathrow to hike charges", Walsh said: "It's a significant new challenge for the airport and not one they have had to face up to in the past.

Those providing the services in this brave new world supposedly hail the freedom of flexible hours and benefit from the surge-pricing that allows them to hike charges as demand rises.

Councils which just cut the frontline or hike charges are guilty of poor leadership".

While English water companies are hiking charges by as much as 8.2%, Glas Cymru, the owner of Welsh Water is only raising prices by 3.8%.

Bankers were today blamed for making "an astonishing mess" of the financial system and criticised for hiking charges and arrangement fees despite being bailed out by the taxpayer.

This is because, as you say, the service, connecting passengers with private-hire drivers, uses a policy of "dynamic" or "surge" pricing which means it hikes charges when demand is high.

With water bills, they are reduced to begging the water company bosses not to hike their charges.

Consumer organisation Which? says of the announcement: "This is bad news for any Halifax or Bank of Scotland customers who regularly use their overdraft, as it's effectively a big hike in charges.

Celebrities such as Formula One racer Jenson Button have been drafted in, contentious plans to hike parking charges in the city centre are on hold and a raft of events, vouchers and discounts are planned to lure back nervy shoppers.

We have scrapped Whitehall planning policy that encouraged councils to hike parking charges and removed restrictions around the provision of off-street parking spaces".