Max Templer

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The Londoners who can't turn off the heat While most of us are busy lamenting the lack of air con, some of London's residents are stuck with the heating permanently switched on. Heat networks supply heat to flats from a central source, often a communal boiler, through pipes that carry hot water. But in many London blocks this is impossible to switch off. A resident of the mid-century Gilesmead estate in Camberwell told London Centric that Southwark Council fitted a new heating system back in 2014. But he said that the system installed was designed for a five-bedroom house, not a one or two-bed flat. "We have a 220 litre hot water tank in every flat. And that is kept at a temperature of about 80°C, 24/7.
Tim Bale post with a link to a story saying “Red Wall Chair Joins Labour MPs Calling for Net Zero Rethink”. Tim says “Crushingly predictable. I honestly wonder sometimes whether these ‘Red Wall MPs’ might be the death of Labour. Antonia Bance MP responds saying “We are the reason there is a Labour a government…”
Al Carns’ Instagram post saying: “Labour was chiselled out of the mines Hammered out of the shipyards Forged in the factories That is the tradition I serve.”