One mum's nightmare that saw her having to pay up to £50 a day for electricity is almost over after a brand new heating system was installed in her house.
Mary Quinn, from the tiny village of South Alloa, near Falkirk, Scotland, told the Daily Record she is overjoyed that after months of constant stress and worry she will at last be able to stop relying on family, friends and food banks to feed her family. The new air source pump has replaced an electric heating system installed in hundreds of council properties 10 years ago, leaving tenants locked into paying prices that have soared in the last three years. After a massive price hike last October, Mary found she was having to pay Scottish Power as much as £50 a day to keep her house in heating and hot water.
From the first day of the new system, Mary saw massive difference - now she says £20 of credit is lasting around four days. The constant need to feed the meter left Mary, who has a brain aneurysm, feeling at breaking point. She admits: "If it wasn't for my kids I don't think I'd still be here. It was so stressful that I just wanted to end it all - at one point, I found myself sitting in my car on the Clackmannanshire Bridge at 2 am, I just felt so low."
