LONDON (HRNW) – British pensioner Doreen Thompson wears extra layers of clothes in her two-bedroom apartment outside London to avoid turning the heat on since her utility bills have jumped.
The 70-year-old usually entertains guests in her kitchen because it’s warmer than the living room — where walls have mould — in her government-subsidised flat in Brixton.
Domestic electricity and gas prices have soared worldwide this year, driven by spiking wholesale energy costs, stoking fears over the peak-demand cold winter in Britain.
As the weather turns cold, “I can’t have the heating on all day because I just cannot afford to,” Thompson told .
– Winter ‘might be nasty’ –
Global inflation has shot higher largely on surging energy prices, eating into household budgets in Britain and abroad, particularly for those on low incomes.
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