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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211013 12:46:00

Leah was my daughter. she was 15 when she died, after taking mdma. unlikely friendship. yeah, very unlikely. we re both grieving. they re both our children. we both lost something. yeah. you know, i know i have a son that i can tangibly touch. yeah. ..but i don t have that happy go lucky boy any more. yeah. and you have lost leah. yeah. you know, to the same drug, mdma, to the same evil. so i got a phone call that evening, as soon as i got there, she was sort of fitting on the car park floor. she was so conscious, like she was still conscious, but not 100%. she said, mum, she knew i was there. within a second, she was.

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211013 09:45:00

We are working together. the campaign we are working together. the campaign is we are working together. the campaign is do we are working together. the campaign is do you know mdma? to get the message out that mdma isn t a fun party the message out that mdma isn t a fun party drug, we want people to know fun party drug, we want people to know mdma kills. and we don t want another know mdma kills. and we don t want another leah, we don t want another connor~ another leah, we don t want another connor. if another leah, we don t want another connor. .. . another leah, we don t want another connor. ,, ., ., connor. if we feel like we have told our story and connor. if we feel like we have told our story and tried connor. if we feel like we have told our story and tried to connor. if we feel like we have told our story and tried to educate - our story and tried to educate people, there we can t really do much else. but there has to be, leah died, and i can t let that be for no reason. a substantial number of english communities experienced a decline in life expectancy. imperial college london researchers have found. in the five years before the pandemic, life expectancy went down in almost one in five communities for women, and one in nine communities for men. a man can live for 27 years less if

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211013 12:48:00

I get how my friends, my family. i don t have the same hatred for connor as i did. i think that is very. if it was the other way round, i don t know if i could not have that hatred. yes. the campaign of doing it together, i think people will stop and look and they will probably be shocked at first because we are working together. the campaign is do you know mdma? to get the message out that mdma isn t a fun party drug, we want people to know mdma kills. and we don t want another leah, we don t want another connor. if we feel like we have told our story and tried to educate people, there we can t really do much else. but there has to be, leah died,

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211013 12:45:00

There is of some stock shortages in the run up to christmas as britain s biggest commercial port, felixstowe, deals with a backlog of containers. prices in care, a shortfall of more than 100,000 workers means people are waiting hungerfor than 100,000 workers means people are waiting hunger for support and the number of vacancies is still rising. now it s time for across the uk. a 15 year old who died after taking mdma has become friends with the mother of the boy who supplied the fatal drugs. the two women say getting to know each other is helping them come to terms with what happened to their children. they are now beginning a campaign together to one teenagers about the dangers of mdma. here is their story. i m kerry, leah s mum.

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211013 09:41:00

Very much. maggie. so it is very low impact. thank you very much, maggie, thanks - so it is very low impact. thank you very much, maggie, thanks for- very much, maggie, thanks for talking to us. maggie lieu, who is an astrophysicist. the mother of a 15 year old girl who died after taking mdma has become friends with the mother of the boy who supplied the fatal drugs. the two women say getting to know each other is helping them come to terms with what happened to their children. they re now beginning a campaign together to warn teenagers about the dangers of mdma. here s their story. i m kerry, leah s mum. leah was my daughter. she was 15 when she died, after taking mdma. unlikely friendship. yeah, very unlikely. we re both grieving. they re both our children. we both lost something. yeah. you know, i know i have a son that i can tangibly touch. yeah. ..but i don t have that happy go lucky boy any more. yeah. and you have lost leah. yeah. you know, to the same drug,

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