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Surviving period poverty with ‘socks and tissue’ – BBC News
Thousands of women in the UK cannot afford to buy sanitary products.
Research by the charity Plan International suggests that one in 10 girls and women – aged between 14 and 21 – in the UK has been affected at some point.
A Scottish government pilot project is providing towels and tampons to those who need them through an Aberdeen food bank.
Two women tell the BBC’s Scotland Editor Sarah Smith about their experiences.
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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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@JohnCusackk
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
ngl dude shii should be free
@dorile4301
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
but to buy hair bleach she had money
@Miami1991
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Lmaoo 😂
@gloriaglore-ms7gk
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
oh damn..
@clairec.mcdonald4696
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Very Good
@SistaBossoMagazine
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
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@theharshtruth8563
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
😂🤣😆
@whateverwhatever4026
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Bruh, you're already 50+, it'll be over soon….
@MeThePersonvWeThePrivileged
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
This is good for micromanagement but don't forget about priorities. We should be fighting for class equality to abolish privilege because privilege and life, liberty and happiness for We The People and the environment cannot co-exist. Time, the continuation of horrific poverty all over the world, the destruction of the environment, deviableating levels of population driving the bar down for what a healthy community is through bullied popular opinion and addictions and countless wrecked civilizations have proven this. What's more important to the entire global population, an environmentally viable population achieved through class equality and the abolition of privilege or seeing LBGTQS on the football field?
@ananyaramalingam4270
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
as much as this is a friendly gesture, the major drawback to this is when people who cn actually afford there just come and take up the pads/tampons because noone can resist free, how may ever rich u may be
@bubandlisa
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
They can afford cigs and booze easy enough
@shimmer4771
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
These comments are rude very ignorant! Pads and tampons are expensive. Here in the U.S., homeless women have to choose between eating or being clean.
@Mr.House_
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
LOL
@yasmine4945
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
these comments disgust me
@dj8422
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
This is a joke. There is enough money for alcohol, but not enough for sanitary pads? 😀
@kiskaloo6843
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
She can afford make up, but, not a 25p pack of 10 pad from Morrisons that do the job as good as any of the named brands, they are what I use. Period poverty is a myth. When I was child growing up in a single parent family in the 70s we never had an issue and sanitary wear was far more expensive in real terms, in fact my mother paid for that 25p then for a pack of towels. These women are playing the system, getting someone else pay for these items so they can spend their money on make up, mobile phone contracts and other non necessities. The issue isn't period poverty, the issue is preying on soft hearted people.
@thelightofthejedi9811
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
they need reusable ones that last for years not disposable ones
@evah9701
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
I think that’s it’s disgusting that we have to pay a lot of money for pads/tampons like think about homeless women on the street how are they gonna afford to buy tampons and pads when they’re so expensive- they should be around $1.00 so people can actually afford it
@beekerfkirina8130
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
sanitary products and medecines should be available for free
@mrfrisky2997
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
I bet everyone of them has a none essential smart phone though……
@madelinekronerswomenshealt1230
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
A lot of people are saying she should use this or that, but no one should have to sacrifice anything, let alone a meal, to control a normal bodily function. We provide free use of the restroom and toilet paper, why not sanitary products? They're just as necessary. Interestingly though, this year the Scottish government just announced the Period Products Bill, a great first step in abolishing this inequality!
@donw7896
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
I’m confused, she has a house but she can’t afford tampons or pads? In Superdrug you can get heavy flow ones for 75p sometimes £1, I think it’s 32 in a pack? Unless she’s on drugs and spending every single bit of her coin on drugs I can’t really understand it. A meal is more than a box of tampons? Even a house?
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December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
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@cynthiagitongs4049
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
she is wearing earings but she cant afford a packet of pads??
@cycility3987
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
I think it’s crazy how us woman have to buy these, when it’s not even our fault, they should be free.
@jackhughes9508
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Don’t wear white jeans when you’re on the blob then luv
@Akuma-qv5zi
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Once it started in the middle of class and my dad had to come and give me some tampons
@lillyshield6187
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
I dont see what the issue with using toilet paper is? If I run out of pads and my social anxiety is so bad that I cannot leave the house, I use tissue. Worse things in life to be worried about
@nickclark6444
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Gross
@Prettyredflames
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Asda sells night pads ( heavy flow) for 60p for a pack of 12. That is affordable.
@matthewmcbride28
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Suppose tax paying men should be paying for them?
@matthewnevin9156
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
This has to be the STUPIDEST Lie iv'e ever heard from the MSM. It's just so easily disproved that you would have to be pushing a narrative to endorse the notion of it. Pads cost £2 a packet and you need them once a month. You get at least £200 a month on benefits. This is just so wrong, it makes me want to bang my head off a wall.
@DrAnne-mc8er
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Women like this don't really do the cause much good. She can afford earings, lipstick, blusher, caked-on eye shadow and mascara, sunbed sessions, hair dye, (almost certainly) cigarettes and lighters, (probably) an annual holiday every year or two to Benidorm as a stand-in for 'Sticky Vicky', and probably gets absolutely blootered most weekends. But she can't afford 66p for her sanitary towels from Tesco once every 28 days. Sorry, but unlike her nether regions, my heart ain't exactly bleedin'!!!
@cheezyem
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Let's say a box of cheap pads or tampons cost £2. A year's supply would then cost you between £20-40. How much did that hair dye cost? A tenner? More? Also I just bought a parka jacket like that off eBay for £25. They're not cheap 🙄
@makeuponthemind
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
There is no such thing as period poverty. I have been about as Poor as you can get without being homeless and I still was able to buy always pads and tampons from the pound shop (which are everywhere). It pisses me off when girls cry period poverty by are waving the latest mobile phone around. That having been said, I do believe hospitals should provide free sanitary products and schools should have free pads available to female students if they need them.
@wowerman
December 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm
How an adult woman can not afford a two boxes of tampons for total of £4-5 per month.Period does not last whole month.
Let us ask some how much they spend on make up or partying.Hundreds.
Obviously teenage girl not earning the money should be provided with sanitary products by parents.
That would be bad parenting.
This is another BBC propaganda.The problem is not with money.The problem is with people.