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Pensioners burn books for warmth

06.01.2010 (12:06 am) – Filed under: Escendo Transitus

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/807821-pensioners-burn-books-for-warmth

Volunteers have reported that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves.

Temperatures this week are forecast to plummet as low as -13ºC in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury falling to -6ºC in London, -5ºC in Birmingham and -7ºC in Manchester as one of the coldest winters in years continues to bite.