Winter Cold Kills 180 British Pensioners Daily. Choice Is Food or Fuel.

• Fuel is becoming a major part of household budget.
• Is the priority caring for overflow of immigrants or the pensioners?

Read an excerpt from the news column.

The numbers of excess winter deaths are a disgrace,” said Michelle Mitchell, charity director of Age UK. “We like to think of ourselves as a civilised society which protects the most vulnerable but the numbers of older people who do not survive the winter here is far higher than most European countries where the weather is far colder.

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