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Inside England’s second most deprived area – BBC Newsnight
Newsnight is following a community in Knowsley on Merseyside over the next five months to see how people are affected by the cost-of-living crisis. The area is one of the most deprived in the country, with over 25% of children living in low-income households.
Victoria Derbyshire meets Steph Cargill, a single mother of two who works part time and struggles to pay her bills. Some months she gets down to her last pound. She’d like to work full time but wouldn’t be able to afford the childcare required.
36-year-old Gary See runs the local community centre which serves hot meals for free to those who need them and runs a heavily discounted ‘social supermarket’ providing kitchen staples at discounted prices. He drives his van to deliver essentials to those in need – from food parcels to electric blankets.
He tells Newsnight that one mother, whose child had attended activities at the centre, told him she was happy because her children were able to get washed there.
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Counter terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the death of former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe, after “new information and evidence has come to light”, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) has said.
“The police are pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for this attack. I will be updating the House further this afternoon,” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said.
A 28-year-old white British man from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was originally arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday but has now been re-arrested “on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism”, CTPSE said.
Police said the “dynamic and complex investigation” had led to the new arrest.
On Thursday, 78-year-old Widdecombe was found dead at her home in Haytor, Devon, having sustained serious injuries.
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Three members of his government, including Home Office minister Jess Phillips, have resigned, whilst scores of Labour MPs are calling for him to quit following a disastrous set of elections for the party last week.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is among a number of cabinet ministers urging the prime minister to set out a departure timetable.
Sir Keir said he does not intend to quit and threw down the gauntlet to potential rivals to formally challenge him as Labour leader.
No MP has yet launched a formal bid to challenge him, which requires the backing of 81 colleagues or 20% of Labour MPs, according to party rules.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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@michaelanthonydevlin6915
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Any money going overseas for aid is a disgrace for country. 6:03 6:05
@steveo726
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Where in norwich is this
@haydnparry8211
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
If all this was about in the 70s!
@SilverSurfer-mg6ti
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
THESE PEOPLE HAVE NICE FURNISHED HOUSES 😂
NICE BIG FAMILIES. AND ALL THE TECHNOLOGIES GADGETS
@rajansapkota858
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Hats off to you sir
@musicms7723
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Their homes are really in good conditions and look nice, I say this not to underplay their struggle but to compare to the condition of council homes in and around london that are riddled with black mould and damp and structural problems, on top of the money worries, I think it must make a bit of a difference to have a home that you can still call your sanctuary albeit the money worries are still there and very real.
@abbiesharpe
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
People who work full time should get nursery hours to cover ! The government want people off UC and work full time but then make it impossible to do so why would someone work full time to be worse off ?
@LSMH528Hz
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
But they have billions for their natsee ukringe friends.
@carllllll1
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Well sell your home and get some equity. Some of us don't have that luxury and have to throw rent into a void black hole
@floralpattern1
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Disgrace this is going on.
@PK-yf3hd
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Where is the man .?in almost all these accounts..and investigations ,male abdication and irresponsibility is not mentioned..we live in an amoral and godless society led and promoted by the media,political class,commercial sector, in short the metropolitan middle class,privately educated and/or university educated who believe nothing beyond themselves and occupy a hypocritical,anti religious ,elitist mind set..they are many lost souls bent on final destruction…I am nearly 80 yrs a Catholic , and have witnessed the almost utter disintegration of this country and the corruption of thought ,values,standards ,and outlook. .and the poisoning of life generally…there will,I repeat be a reckoning and an account to pay for us all
@user-ii4bk1bp8i
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Why do british people accept this. Maybe because they can get arrested for posting an opinion on facebook? Everyone with money knows about the banking system in UK and why there is two London..
@JustLazloOfficial
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Could somebody please explain to my what causes the deprivation in this area? I'm planning to relocate to St.Helens which is also in the Merseyside area, properties are very cheap there, and seemingly wages aren't much lower compared to where I live now in Bedford. So what causes the issues in that area? When I go on rightmove I see a lot of houses are being sold, mostly primary inhabited by old people.
@AZBCDE
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
It’s funny how people say they are surviving when they live in a fancy home and wear fancy clothes. These kind of people are NOT struggling to live, they are just struggling to afford the lifestyle they want to live
@kingkong81icloud
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Al rig your Electric for you love , they cannot tell if you splice into it all you need is a roll of cable board with A trip switch and some sockets on it
@Miami_Vice
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
This is where that smarmy Shunak should live to get a glimpse of reality, not that bubble he's lived his whole life in
@jasondylansargent2195
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
The Tories are a shower of shit need to get this country back on its feet and look after people guys like homeless and children with no food in their bellies 🏴
@stevenbotwin
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Medieval conditions of living. Are you people linking this to the fact that the UK is no longer an empire? If so, the same may happen to France when African countries will finally become free of its reign.
@DorothyShaw-oc7vv
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
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@cub35guy
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
If Brit’s think their life is bad.. try the United States where we are fighting fascism at every turn. Trump and the republicans are vile. I’d love to live in England … tho those who voted for brexit are crazy .
@adamgamble8386
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Torys making Britain into one gaint toilet bowl because people don't push back on thhe torys who want to kill off s much of the poor, eights, money value, weak and old and foreign and fuel foreign interests and billionaires with more money
@adamben-shimon7513
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
The cost of living is out of control. They say that the cost of living in the USA increased by 8%, but that percentage is a lot less than it really is in reality. I think that the cost of living has increased by 40% in the last ten years. The cost of food, housing, and fuel in the USA is so expensive that many people have to decide whether they are going to pay their electric bill or buy food. The situation is sad in the USA. I don't know how low-income people are surviving.
@hanzobanzo6771
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
am a singel dad and work 2 full time jobs for last 2 years and its a struugle sense my child is only 4.5 years old . i thought of going om universal credit and be a stay at home dad but everything is expesive . i have no choice but to over work and sleep deprive y self so my child can have everything . its not easy .
@rockinginafreeworld3256
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
It’s still posh compared to jaywick.
@martinburke362
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Broken Britain!! Make no bones about it the UK will remain Broken that's our position in the world now barring an economic miracle no Govt no political party will alter it large parts of this country are by first world standards quite poor and will remain poor
@stardind1
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
I have two special needs kids and childcare would be 650 American dollars A WEEK PER CHILD. My husband and I have to work opposite shifts just to afford living.
@joehart7260
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
It sounds like Steff got the house and everything because she has children and her partner got nothing, situation normal.
@scruf153
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
a lot better than Americas worst places a lot cleaner to
@paulfranciosi7236
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Cheapest place to live is Marlborough park flats in Washington northeast England that's why the government is renting flats for Nigerians migrants.Should be helping the UK homeless.
@dundeetaylor4136
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
We ignore the plight of these areas. It’s shameful . But hey, let’s bring in more migrants and provide them with everything.
@wendy6512
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Single men and women with kids or single people in general only have 1 income get it hard heartbreaking
@zakmumford39
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
If you can't afford to have kids, then don't have them
@user-dh1sb2is7v
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Stoke on Trent is deprived too. And now the labour idiot that got in the council has cancelled the Arena in favour of more houses….. We don't need more houses we need more amenities and an arena would have helped rebuild the city.. dumb ass labour.
@user-nd6so7yg2y
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
My neighbours are broke as they both work for 15 bucks an hour. But, his wife is a 10 minute walk to work and refuses to sell the car she drives the car which will carbon the motor. He drives an expensive used 45 thousand truck and rent is 1900 and they have a 5 year old. Babysitters refuse to come back as they won't pay you until you chase them for weeks ???
@LulumMm828
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Sorry but whats a nice home got to do with the crisis im on disiblity benefit and i have a nice home because i dont want to live in filth in my council home ….its what keeps me going having made the best home that i can for my children and myself …and keep it tidy its what i feel the only control i have in this situation
@kevinsakwa6665
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
They could split the child care fifty fifty with the baby daddy,so she ends up giving 25 pounds for child care the rest comes from baby daddy what’s this ridiculous say that u can’t afford child care,so why did u end up gettin two kids with the same lousy man?this is just laziness stop this bull**t excuses….
@garethhoughton9720
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health the efficiency of public schools & the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books" W. E. B. Du Bois
@JaneK6557
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Don’t have babies you can’t afford, then expect working taxpayers to pay your way.
@pn2124
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
I’m unemployed and can’t be bothered applying for benefits but it would be nice if the government would go ahead with implementing UBI and giving me my £12k a year. I’m quite happy to sit and smoke spliffs & live off rice & chorizo.
@sidemenlovex7601
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
My only criticism is the mum getting her lips done
@VV-hx3hw
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Hope UK get poorer than African nations. Do not worry your on the right path.
@VV-hx3hw
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Do luv
@michaelmallal9101
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Same in Oz, childcare is expensive.
@deniseg-hill1730
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Just think of how much money is spent housing the dinghy travellers.
When i retired i moved to Germany to live next door to my brother. Here you pay nursery fees according to your income. The max monthly fee my nephew and his wife paid for my great nieces was a maximum of 350 euros a month for each and that included lunch and mid morning and afternoon juice and fruit. My nephew and his wife were and are both on very good salaries.
@LaFonteCheVi
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Modern society destroyed the family and the community.
@AleshaRead-hb5gf
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Oh and Pluto arrives to stay in Aquarius for – 20 YEARS!!!!
@AleshaRead-hb5gf
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
YOU want TRUTH real hard actual fact truth!!!! It’s greed pure and simple rising energy and rent prices is purely and only greed it’s absolutely the rich get rich (through stealing from the poor) and everyone else submits to it- they as a nation and any nation that continues to oppress and restrict the lives of others have a karma to pay. Perhaps when Pluto (death, karma) slams into Aquarius (groups, government, nations group think) = I heard Russia is using nuclear weapons. Well that’s your karma!!!! And anyone who believes oppressing another is ok will beyond feel Pluto.
@888ssss
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
i want my UBI and my video game console.
@simonev97
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
The uk is finished
@sicks6six
December 18, 2023 at 5:04 pm
sitting on leather settees wearing designer clothes with 70inch LCD TVs on the wall and a fully equipped fitted kitchen and a BMW on the driveway, it's a tough old life isn't it, these people couldn't spell deprived, I grew up in a house with no TV, No Fridge, No carpets, No heating, only one pair of wellies, often no coal for the fire so we would saw up old wood from abandoned houses, often no food for a couple of days waiting for the Giro to arrive, ticking on at the local Hadrian store and the local chippy, going out during the night to steal milk off doorsteps with everyone waiting for a cuppa back home in the morning, people are living in luxury now and think because they haven't got ££1000s in the bank they are poor,