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Backlash as 10,000 elderly wait for heating

Ministers were facing a growing backlash last night over a national replacement heating scheme for the elderly after it emerged thousands of pensioners may be left without heating this winter because of a backlog.

Ministers were facing a growing backlash last night over a national replacement heating scheme for the elderly after it emerged thousands of pensioners may be left without heating this winter because of a backlog.