Fuel poverty protesters stage 'die-in' over winter deaths

Fuel poverty protesters stage 'die-in' over winter deaths

Fuel Poverty Action Group campaigns outside EDF Energy headquarters to highlight awareness of the 25,700 excess winter deaths in the UK in 2010-11

Ruth, a Londoner in her 60s, was among them: "I'm here on behalf of older people who have worked all their lives and now can't afford to heat their homes. For us it is the choice between eating or heating, which is no choice at all because the better you eat, the more chance you will remain healthy.

"I know so many people who had pneumonia last year; I know people who had to live in one room last winter, getting colder and colder because they cannot move too well. I also know people who are having to ride buses all night to keep warm. It's no life."