The middle-class war over wood burners: Countryside folk claim they need log stoves to stay warm – and it’s the London elite who are clogging up the air with unnecessarily flash ‘lifestyle choice’
A middle-class battle is brewing between country folk and an apparent city elite – including Londoners – over wood burners after a report branded them Britain’s biggest source of dangerous air pollution. They have become one of the latest must-have status symbols for many, following on from how Aga cookers and Smeg fridges were seen by earlier…