The BBC has revealed its top talent pay – with DJ Chris Evans topping the list with more than £2 million and dwarfing the pay packet of the corporation’s top-earning woman Claudia Winkleman.

Only one third of the list of talent earning over £150,000 are women, with the top names being men. Details of stars’ pay were revealed in £50,000 bands.

The top 10 includes just two women, Strictly Come Dancing and Radio 2 host Winkleman (£450,000-£499,999) and The One Show presenter Alex Jones (£400,000-£449,999).

Radio 2 Breakfast DJ and former Top Gear host Evans took home between £2.2 million and £2,249,999 in the 12 months to April 2017.

A year ago, the star admitted that he was overpaid, saying: “It’s not exactly breaking news that people who do what I do for a living … get paid too much money …

“We’ve got a job that people would kill for … most of us work part time. Just pay us less, that’s what I would do, it’s not rocket science.”

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British Gas is to pay £1.1 million to compensate customers after its agents missed appointments, breaching industry standards.

The energy giant will make the payments to domestic and micro-business customers after its third-party agents missed appointments or turned up late, and did not compensate them as required by the regulator Ofgem.

Around 12,000 mostly business customers were affected.

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