As part of our Wigan Pier project, we revisited Wigan, Cannock, Manchester, Liverpool, Barnsley and Birmingham, along his route, to see how people have fared during the pandemic
Last time we visited Vicki Pinter and her 16-year-old son, they were living in a tent in the woods. “It felt very hopeless,” says Vicki. “My son knew one person here, who he’d met through online gaming. They gave us one hot meal a day which kept us alive.”
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