Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox “It does weigh very, very heavily on me that I’m not giving them the life that I feel as if they deserve. “Guilt is the main takeaway from it all I think.
I feel very guilty, all of the time.” Vikki Waterman is a single mum of two from Durham who has been struggling financially for the last few years, despite working full-time.
Her family is part of a rising tide of child poverty that has been gripping the North over the last few years, which is only being exacerbated by the pandemic. Read more: Annie Gouk explores the issue in the latest episode of The North in Numbers - a podcast that tells the human stories behind the various statistics for the North of
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