British Gas is reminding customers to put their central heating clocks back an hour on Saturday as the country prepares for the start of winter time.

The clocks officially go back very early on Sunday morning and a spokeswoman said: "Cookers, microwaves, video recorders and some computers also have clocks which all need altering."

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