Eat or Heat: Britons angry at energy prices amid soaring 'winter deaths' (VIDEO)

Britain's energy suppliers are under-fire after the government pledged to cut bills.

But this comes as little comfort to the thousands of UK families stuck below the poverty line and still unable to heat their homes, even with the promised help.

RT's Tesa Arcilla has more.

'30,000 could die from extreme cold'

THE extreme cold is thought to have killed thousands of elderly people with a possible total death toll of around 30,000, it emerged yesterday.

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