Shut that door, warns Cambridge University

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Shops keeping heating on and doors open are guilty of doubling their energy bills, research finds

So it seems Larry Grayson was an environmental visionary all along. New research has today confirmed that shops that shut their doors while the heating is on could save up to 10 tonnes of CO2 and cut their...

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