OWNERS of Britain’s biggest power station have declared record profits as its workers strike after rejecting a below-inflation pay increase.

Drax power station, near Selby in North Yorkshire, declared its earnings are up 84 per cent to £731 million in the last 12 months, but it has proposed a wage increase of only 8 per cent for its workers.

Drax has received £6 billion from taxpayers in “green” energy subsidies over the last four decades plus and £800m is due this year.