A landlord was stunned when he received an £11m gas bill for his two-bedroom rented flat.
Denis Dixon knew immediately that it was a mistake - as he had already paid the £500 quarterly bill for the property in Charminster, Dorset.
Mr Dixon told the Daily Echo newspaper in Bournemouth: 'When I phoned British Gas and told the woman at the other end I was going to have difficulty paying my gas bill, she suggested we could come to some sort of an arrangement.
'She checked the bill and then just laughed, saying she could only apologise.'
British Gas Business spokesman Mark Duffell said: 'Quite clearly, it has been a silly mistake and that bill should not have been sent out.
'It was due to human error. The meter had been changed and the wrong reading was taken - clearly it should have been spotted.'
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