Some analysts predict that we're at the peak of this winter's gas prices now.

After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit last summer, natural gas prices spiked sharply. As sources in the Gulf have come back online, national prices have dropped, although not all the way to previous levels. We hope this rate reduction will be helpful to our customers.

We're using every available tool to keep rates in check. The amount of increase Wilson Energy is absorbing this month may not make a significant difference to every bill, but it's the best way we know how to help in this time of high demand and low supply in America.

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.