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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Albert Toth

‘Everything’s so expensive I can’t even take my child to the seaside this summer’

“The focus right now is simply on getting through day-to-day life rather than doing anything enjoyable,” says Sarah, 46, a single mother of one who lives in South Wales.

“With my daughter being in primary school, she has a free breakfast club and she gets free school meals. And obviously now the summer holidays here, that's two meals I'm gonna have to find every day.

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