“It makes me feel sh**'
“It makes me feel sh**,” single mum-of-five Rachel Parks says as she shelters from the blazing sun. “You can't have as many nice days out with the kids.”
The terrifying new stats mean energy prices would have almost tripled in just one year. Last October, the price cap was £1,277. Households in Sedgley Park in Bury had the highest bills in 2020/21, before the recent price rises, averaging at – £1,098 – with 84 per cent of homes found to be Band D or below.
One mum who has seen a huge rise in energy costs is Michelle Barratt, who lives in Prestwich. The 40-year-old has seen her bills increase from £250 a month to £387 - meaning she will no longer be able to put money aside for savings. It’s a prospect that makes the family feel “scared stiff”. “I’m definitely changing how I shop. I used to get branded products but now I just get supermarket own brands. I’m not eating as much meat; we used to buy steaks sometimes, we won’t buy that now because it’s gone up loads.
Leanne Whitworth and her friend Dean sit outside a café at the shopping precinct. Leanne, from Whitefield, has Coeliac disease. The condition means her immune system attacks her own tissues when she eats gluten.
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