Thousands of Scots pensioners face a freezing winter with no heat due to “sky high” charges for pre-payment meters, campaigners have warned.
The “inevitable” disaster has led campaigners to demand the scrapping of standing charges for pre-paid gas and electric meters, which are used by the most vulnerable people.
It is believed that thousands of elderly people - among 470,000 Scots on such meters - are now effectively “off the grid” after running up standing charge bills they cannot afford to pay.
