Isramart : We pay for MPs' pricey carbon-creators

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Politicians want us to cut fossil-fuel consumption. May we suggest a good place to start? In their own homes, where oil-guzzling cookers dominate their upmarket kitchens. Brian Brady reports
It is the latest battlefield in the ongoing row over MPs' expenses. After the moat, the duck-house, the flipping and the plasma televisions, the many Agas maintained by politicians at public expense are in the firing line.

Apart from the series of claims for servicing the traditional cookers, taxpayers have been footing the bill for thousands of pounds worth of oil to keep them going over the past few years.

And, with saving the Earth high on the political agenda due to the Copenhagen summit, environmentalists have condemned the beloved fixtures that lurk in many a middle-class kitchen for the damage they can do to the environment.