I go on about this a bit but I’ll keep trying to raise awareness of the daily threats and abuse reporters get - there’s a man currently in prison for threats to kill me and it’s not ok for people to drop me an email with shit like this
So many in the industry going through this
Again this particular misanthrope seems deeply offended by regular, up-to-date information about the global pandemic that is sweeping the world and our communities
As @behindlocalnews showed recently, the abuse levelled at reporters right now is out of control
So many incredibly kind and lovely messages here, just shows the majority of people are great and the dungeon-dwelling trolls are in the minority!
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In a hospital in Liverpool, people are lying across the floor as they wait for a bed on one of the hospital's wards. One woman has been in Accident & Emergency (A&E) for 30 hours, she will wait another 17 in this packed room.
A grim thread which shows NHS winter crisis is here
Laura Jones was shocked at what she saw when she walked into the A&E department of the Royal Liverpool Hospital earlier this month. She had been suffering with back pains and her GP, suspecting a water infection, sent her to the emergency room at the city centre hospital.
"It was absolutely chocka in there," explains the 37-year-old. "There were people sitting on the floor outside and others lying asleep on the floor inside." Ms Jones would experience a huge wait in these surroundings, waiting for nearly 30 hours before being taken to another unit
When David Purse joined the Royal Air Force as a young man and was posted to Australia, he had no idea His mission could go on to affect his health and the health of his family for generations to come.
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Born and raised in Aigburth in south Liverpool, David had initially joined the Royal Navy before then getting a commission for the RAF. One of his postings was to a place called Maralinga in South Australia in 1962.
He didn't know what the mission was or much about his new home other than it would be very warm. He was a young man and was looking forward to a new adventure.
I’ve been covering Liverpool’s homelessness crisis for a while now and I’ve heard so many heartbreaking stories. This week I heard some tales of hope and community amongst the heartache.
A 🧵 that hopefully shows the resilience and kindness of people
There are shockingly over 1,000 homeless households now living in emergency accommodation in Liverpool - with 14,000 people on a waiting list for housing, they could all be waiting for a long time
Many of these people are living in hotels and being moved around each week
But in the Wavertree area of Liverpool there is a centre doing things a little differently.
An accommodation site run by Vitality Homes is aiming to foster a sense of community between those who have found themselves homeless and in crisis
You wouldn’t really know it from this general election campaign, but there is a huge hidden homelessness crisis in this country, with huge numbers of people stuck in hotels and temporary shelters, desperately hoping for a place to call home.
This week I met some of them 🧵
It is a blisteringly hot day in Liverpool and in the front garden of a large city hotel, a group of women are sitting and talking
At first glance this may look like a pleasant scene. While the group of mothers sit and converse, their children - ranging from crawling babies to 11-year-olds are playing on the neat patch of grass in front of the hotel. The reality is heartbreaking.
We have had another week in which the catastrophic state of this country has been brutally expose and another week that shows this government's only priority is to divide and stir up the culture wars
A frustrating 🧵
Like with most weeks in the United Kingdom at the moment, the past seven days have brought with them some appalling news about the state of the country.
We heard from foodbank charity the Trussell Trust, who announced that they have handed out a record number of emergency food parcels in the last year. In total, 3,121,404 parcels had been distributed in the 12 months up to the end of March. over a third went to children.