A family living in a rural village have say they are trying to conserve the last of their heating oil to avoid paying for a refill, after prices shot up in the wake of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Across the UK, people have reported heating oil prices more than doubling and that deliveries are scarce.
Amie Watson and her family, from Diddlebury, in the Shropshire Hills, say they have now turned off their heating.
Watson said they were particularly hit by the price increases as her nine-year-old son, who is in the process of being diagnosed as autistic, “relies on a bath as part of his nightly routine,” and they “can’t afford to run out of heating oil”.