People affected by fuel poverty are taking their plea for more help to Falkirk Council by holding a demonstration at its headquarters on Saturday.
The protest has been called by Falkirk’s Forgotten Villages campaign, to draw attention to the plight of Falkirk Council tenants who are paying sky-high bills for a heating system they say doesn’t work properly.
Tenants across Falkirk – mostly in the upper Braes area – who have the Thermaflow heating system, are now paying as much as £25 a day for their heating and hot water.And while the campaigners are very critical of how much Scottish Power is charging for the electricity, they believe the responsibility lies with the tenants’ landlord, Falkirk Council.The council agreed earlier this year
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