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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Kelly-Ann Mills

Britain's loneliest pensioner, 76, who struggles to pay bills given devastating diagnosis

One of the UK's loneliest pensioner who cannot afford his energy bills so lives in the dark, says he is now fighting cancer and fears he will die alone.

John Foster is having treatment for oesophageal cancer but says he is struggling.

The retired shipyard worker from Sunderland has no family to help and no says he is "completely alone" in his struggle to survive every day.

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