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Cold Comfort

The National Right to Fuel Campaign says that the funds already exist to improve the insulation and heating of Britain's homes -and it is lobbying for a national housing survey and a major investment programme. Yet this winter about 40,000 old people will die from the cold; if it's very cold the number may double. Jack Jones, now a leading member of the National Pensioners Convention, argues that we can no longer tolerate this annual toll of elderly Britons when most of these deaths could be prevented.

English
  • Originally Aired January 23, 1985
  • Network BBC Two
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