Yes - in the Summer many UK homes could benefit from air conditioning, particularly in southern and eastern areas and is global temperatures increase with longer, hotter, dryer Summer months. Also, most modern air conditioning units function as heat pumps, meaning they can be used in winter as part of a heating system.
Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a village and also civil parish in the Inverclyde council area, as well as the historical county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the north incline of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) south-east of Greenock and also around 15 miles (24 km) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 and becomes part of a larger civil parish which covers a large rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) including within it the smaller sized settlement of Quarrier's Village, initially established as a 19th-century residential orphans' house. The area surrounding the village was resolved in ancient times and also emerged as part of a feudal society with the church separated in between different estates for much of its background. The town itself remained small, offering solutions to close-by ranch areas and also serving as a spiritual center for the church. The name of the town stems from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, showing the commitment of its church to St Columba. The parish church was mentioned in a papal bull of 1225 revealing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and it sits on the website of an ancient religious community dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. Once more in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was created in the church and is significant for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, following the resident Lyle family members's support of an insurrection versus him. Feuding in between the noble households of Kilmacolm was prevalent in the Middle Ages, and also in the 16th as well as 17th centuries, the parish once more concerned the interest of the Crown for giving support to forbidden spiritual Covenanters. The character of the village transformed dramatically in the Victorian period, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. Many of Kilmacolm's modern buildings were constructed between this day as well as the outbreak of World war. The emergence of such transport web links allowed the village to broaden as an upscale dorm town serving the close-by metropolitan centres of Glasgow, Paisley as well as Greenock. The economic situation of the village showed this population change, relocating far from its traditional dependence on farming to providing tertiary sector services to homeowners and also visitors.