Cuts, covid and community in Blackpool: ‘There’s no such thing as a hopeless case’ – video

Mark and Abbie Butcher run Amazing Graze, a pizzeria that hands out free food and advice to people in Blackpool who need it. The town, one of the poorest in the UK, with jobs seasonal and dependent largely on tourist income, has been left reeling from the pandemic, and the restaurant is struggling to cope with heightened demand. As the government pursues its  ‘levelling up’ policy, Mark and Abbie question what the slogan actually means as they deal with the effects of the £20 cut in universal credit on some of Blackpool’s most vulnerable people, and prepare for the challenging winter ahead

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