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Campaigners call for urgent action as millions to face Dickensian conditions this Christmas
An elderly lady with her electric fire on at home in Liverpool

CAMPAIGNERS are calling today for urgent action as millions of people across Britain are set to spend Christmas in Dickensian conditions, living in cold and damp homes.

This is the plight of about three-quarters of a million people in Wales, who are exposed to the health complications that come with fuel poverty, the Warm This Winter campaign has revealed.

That equates to 30 per cent of the population, which is double the UK average.

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