With energy bills continuing to skyrocket amid a cold start to the year, many families are finding it difficult to keep their homes warm.
When one plumber - now appropriately named Britain’s kindest - visited the home of a family struggling to pay for food and gas, he decided to pay it forward by footing their bills.
James Anderson, 52, was called out to the home of a family-of-five last Saturday (January 15) who had been struggling to keep their heating on before they reached their next payday. READ MORE: A Manchester estate is being rocked by thieves and fires James, from Burnley, has run his own plumbing business Depher, which stands for Disability and Elderly Plumbing and Heating Emergency Repair, since 2017. “They rang me to see whether there was anything we could do to help them get through until the next time they got paid,” James explained. “I said I’d pop in and see what I could do.
But when I got there, I realised the actual poverty that they’re living in and the impact all this is having on people." James said he was shocked to be able to see his own breath, while he felt two of the children were “going to die” from the cold while their sobbing mum and dad looked on helplessly.
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