BBCNEWS Breakfast December 29, 2021 07:27:00
Time to get the news where you are. good morning from the news teams in london and the south east. with christmas seeing a surge in calls from families needing refuge from domestic abuse, charities and police are urging people not to suffer in silence over the holidays. it's estimated around 300 women and children in london are spending the festive season in refuges. last year during the pandemic domestic abuse increased by 40%, and this was when women and children were locked in with their perpetrators. and it's the same over the christmas period. lockdown gives perpetrators the perfect excus...
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