24,000 winter deaths as fuel poverty hits

Heating or eating? Given sky-high energy prices, that's the choice many Britons are forced to make: across the UK it's thought there were 24,000 extra deaths last winter.

It's difficult to know how many of those were because of freezing homes. But many of these deaths were preventable. Government cuts look to be part-blamed.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%