Fire accidentally burns family’s Christmas tree, killing autistic 13-year-old Brandon Gonzales

A 13-year-old autistic boy tragically died after he got hold of a lighter and set fire to the Christmas tree at his family’s North Carolina home.

Brenda Contreras Juarez, 30, has been left heartbroken following her son Brandon’s demise on Tuesday.

Myfox8 reported that a caregiver was looking after the teenager, who lived with autism, and a five-year-old girl at the time of the tragedy at 6.30 pm.

Family members said he somehow got his hands on a lighter and set their family Christmas tree ablaze, causing a fire to quickly spread through the home.

The caregiver and the little girl managed to flee the disaster, but Brandon got stuck in the flames, and despite rescue efforts from his caregiver, he perished in the blaze.

His caregiver suffered minor injuries from her efforts to save Brandon’s life, she’s now recovering in hospital.

The family lost everything in the fire, but the most devastating loss of all was Brandon, the oldest of his siblings.

His grief-stricken mother said that it had been three days of torture. That she missed him so much, and that she was dying of sadness.

Brenda’s aunt Noelia Juarez added that they had lost all the material things, but the most difficult thing was that they couldn’t recover what hurt them the most.

The home where Brenda lived alone with her three children, located on Fanning Pointe Lane, was completely destroyed by the fire.

Family members set up a GoFundMe page to collect money to help with funeral expenses, it’s raised $5,255 so far.

Noelia Juarez wrote on the page that on behalf of Family Contreras Juarez, they were making the page to whomever would like to kindly donate money in memory of Brandon Gonzalez since he lost his life in a house fire.

She said that they’d lost everything, their home, and 13-year-old Brandon’s life and that they were asking for help with the funeral costs and to build a new home.

Juarez said he always me her happy with his smile and that he was her world.

It was particularly painful for the family to lose the young boy during the Holiday season, just weeks before Brandon’s birthday.

Neighbours of the family witnessed the catastrophe and reported that the caregiver was a grandmother and it was she and her grandchild who managed to flee the fire.

This is an extremely heartbreaking story made more so because Christmas is just around the corner.

The young man wasn’t seen grabbing a lighter and a small lighter isn’t something that obvious – it’s a small item that a lot of people have in their homes and this is a very tragic misfortune.

This was truly horrible. The home was made from wood, and these kinds of homes go up extremely fast. The lady was his caregiver and was also injured in the fire, and she will now have to recover not only physically but mentally as well.

Some people have said this caregiver should have gone to jail. I grant you that perhaps a lighter should have not been in the home, but perhaps it was used to light the gas on the cooker or for another reason. However, the caregiver was not to blame. It could have happened to anyone, and as sad as this might be, sometimes some things are just out of our control.

Tesco Recalls Batch Over ‘Potential Presence Of MOTHS’

Tesco has recalled a batch of its 139g Finest Apple and Cranberry Stuffing Mix over the possible presence of moths, causing chaos for customers over the festive period.

The supermarket has recalled a batch of its 130g Tesco Finest Apple and Cranberry Stuffing Mix and is advising any customers who may have bought the item to not consume the product and to bring it back to the store where they will receive full reimbursement.

Tesco issued a notice of recall, which said they were recalling a single batch of Tesco Finest Apple and Cranberry Stuffing Mix due to the possible presence of moths which make the product unfit for human consumption.

The supermarket urged customers to not consume the product and to return it to the store where a full refund would be given and that no receipt is needed.

It added that Tesco apologises to their customers for any inconvenience caused, and that if they require any further details to please contact Customer Services directly.

The Food Standard Agency (FSA) also issued a notice of the recall, explaining that a particular batch of the supermarket stuffing was contaminated by a foreign body, which had been identified to be the presence of insects (months), deeming the festive side dish unsafe to eat.

The stuffing mix with toasted ciabatta-style breadcrumbs, advertised to be made with extra virgin olive oil, croutons, dried sweetened cranberries and dried apples, would have a best-before date of September 2024.

The mixture has received an overall 3.6-star rating for quality by Tesco customers, with some describing it as ‘sludgy and tasteless’, and others applauding the £2 box of stuffing for its ‘lovely aroma’.

The FSA issues Product Withdrawal Information notices and product recall information notices to let consumers and local authorities know about issues associated with food.

In some cases, a ‘Food Alert for Action’ is issued. This provides local authorities with details of specific actions to be taken on behalf of consumers.

I’m sure that some of those who did consume the stuffing reported thought it was lovely. Perhaps they even had a weird desire to head-butt their light bulbs. Well, what can I say, ‘Every moth helps!’.

They said it would cause chaos for shoppers, good grief, when outside of your window is a world of fear and dread.

If their finest stuffing contains moths, what on earth has the budget version got in it? Essense of wardrobe.

But seriously, it does make you wonder what toxic foods we eat that never get recalled.

Honestly, these moths have got some balls to get into our stuffing mix, but it does speak volumes about the hygiene and the food preparation in the factory. Perhaps they should be sponsored by ‘I’m a celebrity, get me out of here’.

His Wife, 81, Made Him Pancakes, And He Didn’t Want To Eat Them, So He Stabbed Her To Death

An 85-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife to death because he didn’t want to eat the pancakes she made for him.

Steven Schwartz is now facing murder charges for the death of his wife, Sharron Schwartz, 81, as announced by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

Their statement reads that the defendant didn’t want to eat the pancakes she made and so he stabbed her in the back.

The alleged murder occurred on Sunday afternoon at the couple’s home on Corcoran Street in northwest Washington, DC.

When officers arrived at the location, they discovered Sharron inside the apartment with stab wounds, and Steven had self-inflicted injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington said.

Both elders were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, but Sharron was later pronounced dead.

According to a police affidavit obtained by the Washington Post, Steven told detectives he ‘loved that woman for 40 years’.

The 85-year-old defendant said that he had lost 45-50 lbs in the hospital in recent months due to physical and psychiatric disorders.

The affidavit read that Steven said that his wife wanted him to get back to 180lbs.

In an interview with Detective Jeffery Clay, Steven described his wife as a bit of a taskmaster but said she was doing it for his benefit. That she loved him so much that she wanted him to be well and that she wanted her partner and protector back, Steven told officers.

The argument began on Sunday morning when Sharon asked the defendant if he was going to have breakfast.

Steven responded by saying that he’d had a quarter of a Krispy Kreme doughnut the day before.

Steven said he told his wife that he would try to eat a pancake with not too much syrup, but later changed his mind.

The affidavit said that the next thing he heard was a plate crashing against the wall and after he reached and grabbed a carving knife from a holder.

A postmortem report later found Sharron was stabbed once in the back and the blade pierced her heart.

Police on the scene said that Steven was clutching a knife and refused to let go of it until an officer used a taser to subdue him.

Steven allegedly told police that he leaned down and kissed his wife as she lay on the floor, and said it was the most beautiful kiss.

This man evidently had mental health problems, perhaps Alzheimer’s or dementia, and people who do these sorts of things are usually totally shocked by what they’ve done. Numerous families who have a relative or loved one with the illness have to deal with all sudden violent episodes with them.

Yes, I agree. What the man did was bad, but we also need to have understanding and compassion as well. They were married for an extremely long time, and his mental health might have waned a bit, but it always comes back to bite them on the arse. However, people should not make jokes about what has occurred.

I’m going to say that dementia did play a part in this because impulse clearly took control, and although this woman didn’t deserve to die this horrific death as his wife and caregiver. She chose to do it because she loved her husband, and we must remember that if this man does have dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, it is such a horrible disease, and this would have been a lousy situation.

The Boy Who Was Missing For 6 Years Has Been Found Alive

The vehicle’s headlights silhouetted the exhausted teenager ambling along in the rain in the deepest rustic France, with a skateboard tucked under his arm.

Delivery driver Fabien Accidini recounted that he thought to himself, that’s strange, it’s 3 am, it’s raining, and he’s all by himself on the road between two villages.

From there, the story gets stranger still. The youngster, it turned out, was Alex Batty, a 17-year-old from Britain who had been missing since 2017.

British and French authorities confirmed on Friday that the teenager discovered by Accidini this week was the boy who disappeared at age 11 when his mother and grandfather took him on what was meant to be a brief family holiday in Spain.

Instead, it turned out to be a six-year odyssey through Morocco, Spain and southwest France, living a nomadic, off-the-grid life.

Batty told French investigators that they moved from house to house, carrying their own solar panels, growing their own food and living with other families in what the teenager described as a spiritual community, French authorities said.

However, Batty unexpectedly popped up again this Wednesday, on the remote road where Accidini found him after he and his mother parted ways.

A French prosecutor said on Friday that the teenager decided to go his own way after his mother told him that she wanted them to move yet again, to Finland.

The prosecutor, Antoine Leroy, said at a news conference in the southwestern French city of Toulouse that when his mother indicated that she intended to leave for Finland with him, the young man understood that this journey had to stop.

He said Batty walked for four nights, resting during the days, and fed himself with different things that he found in fields or gardens before Accidini picked him up and delivered him to the safekeeping of French police.

The mother, Melanie Batty, has probably left for Finland, Leroy said. And the grandfather, David Batty, is thought to have passed away about six months ago, he said. Both are sought by British police in connection with his disappearance.

Accidini said he spotted the teen alone in the rain with a flashlight, a backpack and his skateboard. The deliveryman stopped and asked if he was okay, what he was doing there, if he needed assistance and if he wanted him to drop him in a village.

It’s delightful that he’s been found, and it’s so lovely to read about a feel-good story for a change. I hope that this young man is reunited with his family and has no long-term trauma from his ordeal.

And why did his oddball mother see fit to subject her son to this nonsense?

This is wonderful news and really uplifting and it just goes to show one should never give up hope.

Thank heavens to the stranger who was a good person and took the teenager to the police station. Could have easily ended up much worse.

Perhaps one day this story might be made into a film, you just never know, so good luck with the future.

We have no idea what this teenager’s life was like for all those years, but I do hope that he finds happiness from now on because this story is amazing and it also gives hope to other families of missing children.

It takes a lot of guts and this teenager must have been confused as to what to do next or who he could trust. He went to huge and dangerous measures to leave, that takes guts.

An Aussie Pub’s Ban On Cash Backfires

A new brewpub which opened this week in Western Australia generated a stir on social media after it said it wouldn’t take cash and only accepted card payments.

Froth Craft Brewery, across the road from North Beach in Perth’s north, celebrated its opening in preparation for the weekend crowds, with the brewery’s two other pubs in Exmouth and Bunbury already highly popular.

However, potential customers on the Hey Perth Facebook group took issue with the refusal to take cash saying they would avoid the venue, and that they would not be supporting them if they wouldn’t accept cash.

Another person agreed that if venues were not accepting legal tender they should be boycotted.

A third added that cash was the key and they wouldn’t see them in there and they only live a few minutes away.

Another said, no cash, been to two venues like this and when the bank’s system keeps stuffing up so you can’t buy anything they’ll be whining business is slow.

Another agreed that they would be laughing at them when the next online banking or telecommunications outage happened.

A fifth person said, no cash, no business from them.

However, some claimed there was a good reason the business had opted to not have cash on the premises.

One commenter argued, that no cash is more security for businesses and more security for patrons.

Another agreed that less than 15 per cent is paid by cash and that they didn’t think the small number of people refusing to go there because of that would affect their sales.

Australia is shifting to a mostly cashless society with digital payments soaring and banks streamlining their operations by ditching cash, but some claim the switch leaves businesses and customers vulnerable to hacks or computer outages.

Digital payments also incur a fee whenever they’re made, chipping away and both businesses’ and customers’ savings, in contrast to cash which keeps its set value.

Speaking at a conference this week, RBA governor Michele Bullock said the share of consumer payments made using cash declined from 70 per cent in 2007 to 13 per cent last year.

Although the federal government and the central bank are committed to keeping cash as a failsafe payment option in Australia, RBA governor Michele Bullock says its declining popularity is posing a challenge.

The number of ATMs and bank branches where people can get money out has already been declining, though Ms Bullock said the distances people needed to travel to access cash have been little changed in recent years.

Go cashless and go broke. People like to have a preference in how they pay. Say goodbye to markets, garage sales, Facebook marketplace et cetera. It will be a no-cash future.

Almost daily I read or hear about some group undoubtedly in the minority being given every privilege and advantage.

A couple of people whine about a dog yapping and that it’s off its lead and then we find the parks have closed. Then you have people saying they can’t do well in their preferred sport because they want to be a boy or a girl, and then suddenly they’re all pariahs if they say it’s unfair. Now cash payers and users are the minority and they’re being discriminated against and told to tow the line.

Governments want a cashless society because it’s far easier to control the masses if there’s no cash and in the end, they will have everyone by the throat. Just wait and see!

A Teacher Who Told Ten-Year-Olds That Father Christmas Didn’t Exist Is Headed For The Naughty List

A school has been forced to apologise to parents after a teacher falsely told her class that Father Christmas wasn’t real.

The stand-in teacher at Hill View Primary School in Bournemouth, Dorset made the blunder while her class of 10 and 11-year-olds were making Christmas cards on Wednesday.

The festive faux pas is said to have generated quite the scene as the Year Six pupils left the school questioning their parents to see if what she’d said was correct.

The school later that day emailed a letter to parents apologising profusely for the upset caused to the children by the Santa slur.

They said the teacher in question would not be returning to the school and they were deeply disappointed by her actions, but parents are still baffled why the primary school teacher would want to ruin Christmas.

The letter said that they were aware that whilst making Christmas cards, a supply teacher told the Year 6 children that Father Christmas was not real.

The school said that they apologise for any upset that it may have caused to the parents and their children and that they would be contacting the supply agency about the matter.

They asked everyone to accept their sincere apologies and thanked them for their understanding in the matter.

A follow-up letter that was sent said that just to update everyone regarding the incident with the supply teacher, the supply agency was spoken to and that particular supply teacher would not be coming back to Hill View and that as a school they sincerely apologise for this and the supply agency also sends their apologies.

It said, thank you for your comments and emails which have been taken on board and that they could assure everyone that the supply teacher would not be returning to Hill View.

One parent, who didn’t want to be named, said that Christmas was a stressful time of the year, and the last thing they needed was the school ruining it by taking away the magic. They said, what teacher in their right mind would say that to young children? And how did it even come up? The mind boggles.

A spokesperson for Hill View Primary School said that they wrote to parents to let them know what had happened in a class that was being led by a supply teacher.

That was no blunder, it was just a spiteful unnecessary comment. Children have dreams the same as adults do, so why spoil it for them?

It seems that teachers are toxic towards children now. Perhaps parents should be homeschooling their children so that they’re not brainwashed by teachers with an agenda.

Christmas is a magical time of the year. I didn’t tell my children that there was a Father Christmas, I explained that he was a guy dressed in an ensemble, but that it was still an extremely important time of the year and why it was a very important time of the year. My children were delighted that I had bought the gifts and taken the time to wrap them with love, but everybody is different and believes in different things. However, we teach our children not to lie, yet we lie to them all the time by telling them that there’s a Father Christmas that comes down the chimney and the Tooth Fairy that leaves them money for a tooth, then they find out years later that they were lied to, when we told them that it’s bad to lie, but each to their own.

As Chris Cuomo Interviews A TikToker With Tourette’s, She Repeatedly Tells Him To ‘F**k Off’ And Adopts A British Accent

Chris Cuomo laughs as he interviewed a TikTok influencer with Tourette’s syndrome, who repeatedly told Chris Cuomo to ‘f**k off’ and mimicked a British accent.

Baylen Dupree, a freshman at West Virginia University, shared her journey dealing with Tourette’s, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by quick and repetitious tics and sounds.

During the interview aired on NewsNation Tuesday night, she repeatedly told Chris Cuomo to ‘f**k off’ and gestured by extending her middle finger to the 53-year-old news anchor.

Minutes into the conversation, Chris Cuomo smiled and laughed when Dupree, in a humous British accent, said, ‘Go f* yourself, Chris a bunny, old biscuit fat a**’.

After the tics, she resumed the conversation, saying that she also receives hate from people who have told her that her parents deserve to die in a car accident.

Dupree, a freshman in college and a social media influencer with 9 million followers on TikTok went viral after she documented her life with Tourette’s Syndrome.

Tourette’s Syndrome, which usually starts in childhood and is characterised by involuntary motor and verbal tics, is believed to affect about 1.4 million Americans, including Billie Eilish.

Vocal tics include humming or shouting out specific words, which Dupree had displayed throughout her interview with Chris Cuomo.

She said that she wants people to learn that Tourette’s is a neurological involuntary motor and vocal disorder. She said that there are a lot of things that people don’t understand and that people think that cursing is typical with everyone who has Tourette’s syndrome, but it’s only ten per cent of people with Tourette’s.

She said she gets thousands of DMs from parents, from teachers, from girls that have been diagnosed with Tourette’s and they’ve had to be kicked out of school for attention seeking because they rip up their homework or do things like that.

She added that she also gets very evil people who will come and say, and then you can see she has trouble finishing the sentence during the interview.

Chris Cuomo endeavours to hold back his laugh by concealing his face with both hands and nodding his head. The interview then continues after Dupree’s swearing tics.

She said that people have told her that her parents deserve to die in a car accident and that she’s had the police at her house because people gave out her location and said they’re gonna come and torch her house.

Tourette’s syndrome is not funny, but how can you not laugh, this girl is hilarious and those who do laugh, well many are laughing with her and not at her, but many are laughing at her and that is despicable.

It was a brilliant interview and he wasn’t laughing at her he was just having a human response. What was alarming was that they bleeped out what the girl was saying and they shouldn’t have because the interview was about her Tourette’s.

Why on earth did they do that? Was it to protect the fragile sensibilities of the viewers because it was pre-watershed?

In my opinion, it was terrible so-called journalism. The news needs to be reported accurately, especially when they’re interviewing people who live in a nation where most people believe almost everything they see on TV.

Now because they bleeped the swear words out, people will believe that Tourette’s isn’t a real thing and anyhow, this lady has had to live with her condition all her life, so why shouldn’t the public? And censoring what she was saying only protects the idiots out there who believe very stupidly that Tourette’s isn’t real.

Blackpool Nurse And Healthcare Worker Who Illegally Drugged Patients For ‘Own Amusement’ 

A nurse and assistant practitioner have been jailed for a total of ten years and two months after drugging patients for their amusement.

Senior nurse Catherine Hudson, 44, and healthcare worker Charlotte Wilmot, 48, were earlier found guilty of the ill-treatment of stroke patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Catherine Hudson illegally sedated two patients and plotted with junior coworker Charlotte Wilmot to sedate a third.

The dangerous and cruel pair are said to have targeted patients if they disliked them or their relatives, drugging them for an easy life.

Messages between the pair, which were discovered after an inquiry was launched into alleged wrongdoing, revealed how Hudson wrote to her friend that she was going to kill bed 5 and planned to give one patient the best sleep she ever had.

In another message to a coworker, Hudson wrote that she was having a lovely day that she’s had in Blue Bay today. Sedated all the troublemakers.

Hudson, who drugged patients to exert contemptuous power, was sentenced to seven years and two months at Preston Crown Court.

Her colleague Wilmot, who a judge said was involved with two patients but was not the lead offender, received a three-year sentence.

Hudson gave one victim, 76-year-old Aileen Scott, left paralysed by a stroke, an unprescribed sedative to keep her quiet and compliant.

Her son Brian described the two nursing staff as pure evil and said that their treatment was disturbing and that his mother’s treatment would haunt her family for the rest of their lives.

Neither staff member has ever been accused of causing any deaths, although patients on their ward were profoundly sick.

The judge spoke of the distress the relatives of victims would feel and said the case would result in a loss of public confidence in healthcare workers.

In his sentencing remarks, he said they were in a position of trust and responsibility. They offended against vulnerable people in their care over a significant period.

He said there was in each case a risk of harm and that we’ve heard of the risk of sedatives to stroke patients.

He added that the relatives of all those patients would always be distressed at the betrayal of trust and that there would be a loss of public confidence in the NHS.

Police were alerted by hospital chiefs in November 2018 after a student nurse on a work placement said Hudson suggested administering unprescribed zopiclone, a sleeping tablet, to elderly patient Aileen Scott.

Well done to that student nurse because it’s not easy to speak out against people in authority at the beginning of your career.

Some people are so wicked. Imagine what their poor families have been put through, when no doubt these patients were trying to tell them what was happening to them, and no doubt these wicked people were denying their actions.

This appears to be happening a lot these days and patients need to be watching their medications and what’s being given to them, but not all patients are well enough to do that, so old people just get sedated to shut them up and keep them quiet, it’s appalling.

The culture within the NHS needs to change drastically, and I suspect that this has happened to a lot more people than they let on. What is concerning is the possible culture of abuse.

I’ve watched nurses in hospitals and you can see the ones who have no respect for their patients and are smug bullies. Once upon a time, nurses joined the profession to become a nurse because they were dedicated, now they enter for power.

After Stranger’s Ignorant Words, Mother Opens Chip Shop

Slur directed at autistic son knocked Gillian sideways, but she reacted in the best way she could.

A mum has decided to open an accessible chip shop so her autistic son has a job for life.

Gillian Jervis got the idea to open Oliver’s Chippy in Warton, Lancs, near Blackpool after a stranger labelled her son Oliver a ‘burden on the state’ in an online chat forum.

The comment stopped the mum of four in her tracks. She said that she sometimes thinks she dreamt the comment and that she made it up because why would you say something like that?

Determined not to let the troll win, the mum decided to make her own future for her son by setting up a business in his name.

Oliver’s Chippy in Warton, on Lancashire’s Fylde coast, opened in 2021 with the now 14-year-old’s future in mind.

Gillian added that employment-wise, he wouldn’t be able to just leave school and go straight into a job like a neurotypical child.

Oliver’s autism can cause some communication problems, so Oliver’s Chippy is designed with neurodivergent and learning-disabled people in mind, with visual screens on the menus and tills as opposed to words and phrases.

She said that if you’ve got dyspraxia, selective mute, people who have trauma, where if they start speaking something might trigger them.

She added that you’ve got people with a stutter, so she’s looked at it this way. Before people start to speak, they look at the pictures, don’t they? It’s better to see a picture of what you want, it gives you the confidence to come into the shop and order what they want without saying it.

Gillian had worked in chip shops in the 90s before becoming a stay-at-home mum to raise her four children.

Since opening, Oliver’s Chippy has given out free meals to 1,300 children and supported other families across the Fylde Coast with giveaways including an iPad and air fryer.

She said, explaining the motivation, that we’ve had the cost of living crisis, fuel shortages, the after-effects of COVID and people not working as they were, with people losing their jobs due to COVID as well.

The shop first began giving away free meals during the Easter holidays when it opened at its own cost, before getting support from Bryning with Warton Parish Council and a GoFundMe appeal to provide more help to the community.

I do hope that this business is a success and here’s hoping the very best to this amazing lady and her son’s future. This mother had such a good idea and she’s a great mum and a great human being.

This was such a positive idea and one son that will be happy, and just future-proof to ensure that nobody takes advantage of him, and well done to his mother who should be applauded. Numerous families do their best to help their additional support needs children to reach their potential and protect their futures, who will read this with joy.

This chippy not only helps her son but also the customers as well, and as a parent with an additional needs son, you’re a great inspiration to others.

I wish you all the luck in the world and much success because a mother’s love is priceless.

I can never understand people and their terrible comments about people with any form of disability, it’s disgraceful.

Wonder Woman is real. She’s an awesome lady and an awesome mum.

Well done to this amazing mother and whoever made the vulgar comment should bow their head in shame. Nobody knows another person’s circumstances and they should beware because you never know what life might throw at you, and they might find themselves in a similar position and end up being on the end of their offensive comments.

How Will Father Christmas Find Me, A Crying Child Asks?

An eight-year-old boy fears Santa Claus won’t be able to find him this Christmas after he was made homeless.

Marcel and his mum Sarah were moved into a hotel room by Cardiff City Council after they were ousted from their rented flat.

The widowed mother remembered her son asking: ‘How is Santa going to find me if we’re homeless?’

She told the BBC that no child should ever say that and that her son shouldn’t have to worry about Christmas or whether he’s going to get presents or not.

Marcel, who has learning difficulties, doesn’t understand why he no longer has his own room.

In a clip, Sarah shows the hotel room that they will call home for the time being.

She said that she was grateful for the room, but obviously, she didn’t want to remain there for a long time.

Around the double bed shared by the mother and son, their belongings can be seen stacked up on shelves and spread across the small accommodation.

Sarah explained Marcel isn’t able to sleep that much as he wakes up scared many nights due to the noise in the hotel.

Sarah told the BBC that he wakes up saying that he doesn’t like the dark and screaming.

She said that without routine, he just goes haywire and that it’s just meltdown after meltdown and then he kicks off and gets angry.

Sarah and Marcel are waiting for the council to find them somewhere permanent to live after they were evicted when their landlord sold up.

Marcel said that it gets a little bit lonely with no visitors and that pets are not allowed.

The Welsh government declared a ‘health crisis’ due to the number of people living in temporary accommodation.

Despite having a good pool of temporary housing for 1,700 families, Cardiff council claimed it was facing exceptional demand, forcing it to shelter 202 more households in five hotels across the city.

It said it was prioritising moves for those in hotels wherever possible, the BBC reported.

Marcel is unfortunately not alone, as a record total of nearly 4,000 children will be homeless in Ireland this Christmas.

Many are babies who will spend their first Christmas in life without a place they can call home.

Christmas should be a time of untroubled enjoyment and creating unforgettable memories that will last a lifetime, but sadly, homeless children will be stuck in emergency accommodation with no proper place to put up a tree, play or even have family and friends over to visit.

However, it is the landlord’s right to sell their property if they wish to do so, as long as they give that person notice. We shouldn’t be condemning them, but our Government for selling off all the housing stock.

I suppose at least they have a hotel room, it could have been a lot worse, they could have been sleeping on the streets this Christmas because numerous families with their children will be sleeping on the streets this Christmas and it’s appalling because our Government are doing nothing about it, and I’m sure Rishi Sunak isn’t losing a nights sleep over it!

Boat people are being housed rather more quickly than someone who has lived in the United Kingdom all their life. People on the waiting list can wait at least 10 years for a property. Our Government’s priorities are all messed up, and I’m sure they’re determined to destroy this country altogether and they’re almost there.

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