As temperatures fell to minus six on Wednesday evening in Glasgow – eight days after 29-year-old Marek ran out of gas and was unable to top-up his meter – he decided he couldn’t take the cold any longer. He packed a bag and went to sleep at a friend’s flat.
His situation is one faced by tens of thousands of the poorest Scots households who went without power for heating, hot water or light in the coldest months of last winter, new figures suggest.
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