The i news reports that rural households facing months without heating due to major delays in liquid gas deliveries have pleaded with the government to help restore affordable supplies

Around four million households in the UK are off-grid, meaning they do not receive piped gas to their homes and must rely on deliveries of liquid petroleum gas.

Of these, almost 200,000 properties – mostly in rural areas – are supplied via external gas tanks, with regular deliveries of LPG being made.

However, across the country, off-grid rural households are having to wait months for heating fuel as the ongoing HGV driver shortage has left providers struggling to fulfil orders.

When they do get their deliveries, they are seeing prices rise considerably, as LPG is not covered by the price cap and as a result has been exposed to the full force of skyrocketing global energy prices.

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