THE 521 people who died for want of a warm home in Scotland last year will be remembered at a vigil in Glasgow on Saturday.

Campaigners at Fuel Poverty Action – and their newly formed Glasgow hub – have organised the event to remember those killed by rocketing energy costs, and to launch their campaign against forced installation of pre-payment meters, drawing attention to a crisis they say has not gone away.

In parliamentary evidence earlier this year, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition told MPs that a staggering 4,706 people were thought to have died across the UK because they could not afford to heat their homes – 521 of them in Scotland.