Stark new figures estimate that some 4,950 excess winter deaths last year in the UK were down to people living in cold and damp homes. New official data from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition says those figures were recorded during winter 2022/23. The Warm This Winter study also found that, when the average winter temperature in the UK drops below four degrees centigrade, the level of excess winter deaths sky-rockets. Last winter, the average was slightly up from that, at 4.3°C. It comes at a time when Britain is suffering extreme cold in many regions. December 2023 was unusually warm but, this m…