Pensioner left 'frozen' in sheltered housing after heating turned off overnight
Updated: January 30, 2021, 5:40 pm © SYSTEM Alexander Cuthill. An elderly amputee was forced to “freeze” in bed after the council turned off overnight heating in his sheltered housing complex. Alexander Cuthill, 82, who lives in Baluniefield Sheltered Housing in Douglas, said he had been regularly waking up freezing cold through the night. He said: “It is so cold. The weather has been freezing outside and I have been waking up shivering and freezing. “I am having to get up through the night to put layers of clothing on top of my pyjamas and layer up on the bedding. It is absolutely a...
Source: eveningtelegraph.co.uk