A hungry mother and her disabled son wait for their prescription outside a pharmacy at Little Hulton District Centre. The 52-year-old won't eat all day so she can afford food for her two children. She survives off food banks and the yellow-stickered items that supermarkets put out at the end of the day. It’s a relentless uphill battle that leaves her feeling “hopeless”.
“We’re scraping by,” she says. “We have a catalogue bill that I haven't paid for six weeks because of food and gas and electric taking all the money. We were struggling to pay them in the first place.
“We don't even have a TV because we can't afford a license. I'm anxious and panicked. We've gone without food so my disabled son can eat, we've skipped dinner or breakfast so he can have whatever.
