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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Paige Oldfield

Life in UK town where families have to beg for clothes and huddle in one room for warmth

People living in one of the most deprived parts of the UK have to beg for clothes and huddle in one room for warmth as the cost of living crisis hits.

Families are teetering on the edge and are regularly having to choose between starving and freezing as energy costs and food bills soar.

They say Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement, with its 5p cut on fuel duty and National Insurance threshold increase, does not go far enough and the reality on the ground is stark.

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