More than 400,000 electricity meters will soon stop working across the UK – leaving households potentially without hot water or heating. Radio Teleswitching System (RTS) meters date back to the 1980s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around 430,000 properties have been urged to switch to smart meters as soon as possible (Getty Images) Pensioners are at risk of ...

Hundreds of thousands of households who may have been left without hot water and heating at the end of June will not immediately have their old meters switched off, the government has said. There will ...

Some households could be left without hot water and heating if they don’t make the “vital” switch to a modern smart meter. The major energy supplier explained RTS meters, which were first introduced ...

THOUSANDS of households are sitting on a ticking time bomb that could leave them freezing cold and without hot water within weeks, energy watchdog Ofgem has warned. In a desperate final push, the ...