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Plymouth residents who suffer from medical conditions exacerbated by cold and wet weather are being given assistance to make their homes toasty – with grants available for new boilers, radiators, loft and cavity wall insulation and other energy-saving advice. The Healthy Homes initiative offers both private tenants and homeowners alike the chance to improve the [...]

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Horwich Heritage Centre in Lancashire gave a salutary lesson in the importance of safe and effective radiator placement this week when the local authority warned that many of its exhibition displays needed to be removed because they were “boxing in” the radiators and causing potential dangers. The displays surrounding the radiators were not only preventing [...]

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Carers in Scotland will not be afraid to turn on their radiators this winter, if a new Scottish Government initiative has anything to do with it. The government announced that nearly 7,000 carers north of the Scots-English border will see their heating bills cut when the existing energy assistance scheme is expanded to include them. [...]

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photo credit: khrawlings Maintaining household radiators is to form part of a new course offered to tenants by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, it emerged this week. The council is sending out DVDs to all its tenants giving them advice on home improvements. Among the top tips and demonstrations on the DVDs is how to bleed radiators [...]

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