Each week dozens of Mirror readers write to our much-loved columnist Val Savage. But of all the messages she has received there was one Val got recently which has shaken her to the core.
It was a letter which no one should be forced to write in Britain in 2023. It is a letter which shames our nation.
In it, three women in their seventies tell Val how during the cost of living crisis they’ve dubbed themselves the Bus Monkeys after spending their days riding around on buses to keep warm, and cooking their food on camping stoves to save on energy.
