PENSIONERS and fuel poverty campaigners joined forces in London today, demanding government action to prevent thousands of vulnerable people from dying every winter. 

The National Pensioners Convention (NPC) and campaign group Fuel Poverty Action (FPA) marched from Parliament to Downing Street to deliver a letter.

They highlighted figures from the Office for National Statistics that reveal 63,000 excess winter deaths in England and Wales last year, 53,000 due to Covid-19 and 10,000 due to cold-related illnesses.