oh, that s a race. but in this crisis, there are no easy answers and no quick fixes. lost quite a lot of weight in the last year and a bitjust not being it lived. i d rather my children eat their meat. i might have a meal a day if i m lucky in the end. of course, it s down to money. her ex makes some modest payments for the kids, she still does get work, but she s also a single mum and has to fit her cleaning shifts around brett s childcare. the problems don t stop there. i don t receive, like, any sort of benefits for little man because he was born after that time period where they said you couldn t. it s a cut off point. and that s because brett was born after 2017 when the rules changed forfamilies with three or more children. so i only get money for the two girls. so we re literally living off that. and it s just it s craziness. i don t know how they ve come up with these calculations and how they expect people to live.
don t be sorry. .because i m worried about this baby. your baby, yeah. what a hero. what a special, special person. that s somebody who has lost everything. in circumstances you can t even imagine. he s come here. can t get a job because of his paperwork. and yet comes here. this cold, old church, just to help people in newcastle who are struggling with the cost of living. and it s so selfless. and it s a really moving, beautiful thing. into the new year, i m back to catch up with anita. last time i saw you, you were looking forward to christmas, wondering how it s going to work out. how did it work out?
and it is going to stop and we re going to be back to where we were, where we re going to be struggling. give us more free childcare, and i ll do it as many hours as you want us to. what are you hoping for then? ijust want him to be happy and safe and be able to keep warm, and food in their tummies. it s all i want. it s been a cold, hard winter, but at least spring is coming. for carole and the entire team here, the work goes on. there is so much need, yet there is so much hope. people who come to us, they re just, like you. they re like me. they re like anybody out there. people now regard food banks as a way of life. that should never be. this is not a solution. they need people to listen to them. this is the key. don t think they re all thick. don t think they haven t got a voice. they have got a voice.
that s the top and bottom of it. and i feel embarrassed because i ve got to ask for help. to be fair, i would have probably been worn out asking people to borrow money. thank you ever so much. thank you. for anita s family and so many others across her community, carol s team are life savers. oh, that s a rice. but in this crisis, there are no easy answers and no quick fixes. lost quite a lot of weight in the last year and a bit, just not being able to live, to be fair. i d rather my children eat their meat. i might have a meal a day if i m lucky. in the end, of course, it s down to money. her ex makes some modest payments for the kids, and anita s always worked. she still does. get off me leg! but she s also a single mum and has to fit her cleaning shifts around brett s childcare. the problems don t stop there. i don t receive, like, any sort of benefits for little man because he was born after that time period where they said you couldn t. it s a cut off point. and that s because bre
problems don t end there. there s been a second policy u turn in the space of two days. the government now says it will ease restrictions on building onshore wind farms, heading off a likely revolt by conservative mps who d demanded they should be permitted with local support. rishi sunak had opposed relaxing the ban and has said in the past that he wanted to focus on offshore wind. the concession comes after the government agreed to abandon plans to impose mandatory housebuilding targets on local councils. our environment correspondentjonah fisher has more details on the debate about onshore wind farms.