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Lucy Thornton & Vikki White & Mellissa Dzinzi

The Leeds cafe freezing pensioners are sitting in for hours every day just to escape their cold homes

Pensioners are queueing at a café in Leeds in a bid to escape the cold weather exposing the harsh reality of the rising energy costs.

Staff at Denicos Italian Café, in Crossgates shopping centre, say elderly people line up at the venue “every single morning” with some arriving even before they open at 8.30am.

This shocking news comes as energy bills are set to skyrocket pushing millions of people into poverty.

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