But if it is down to Corgi engineers to check your fire or boiler is safe can you really be sure that they do any better?

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Combined with the phase change material, this would allow a boiler to fire much less often -- seems like a great idea, if you ask us.

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We had reported earlier in the year that the chapel had originally opened in 1811, but was now threatened with closure because it needed a bit of tlc in the form of a new fire escape, a new boiler and a central heating system which could ward off the oncoming winter.

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Ms Bridgewater said she had always had her boiler serviced but never her cooker or fire.

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Within a few short weeks, Mr Ahmed and his two friends, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, were back home in the small West Midlands town of Tipton, where local people greeted their return by setting fire to an effigy of a figure in an orange boiler suit.

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