Wisbech

Oh, there was no commercials, was there? I mean, there was an odd, an odd lake and, and, and like that's never changed.

But, uh, like, like Wisbech and, uh, one or two others, Coombe Abbey and, uh, and that, Attenborough Gravels.

Mm-hmm.

Um, but no, commercially there was, there was just nothing.

Life-threatening injuries where he remains.

The driver of the HGV, a 76-year-old man from Wisbech, was uninjured and arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing serious injury by careless driving.

He has since been released on bail to return to Thoughtwood Police Station on January 4th.

Officers are appealing for information and dashcam footage from anyone who witnessed the collision or saw either a vehicle in the moments leading up to it.

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"Okay, Wisbech has brought in a petting zoo.

Let me put it on the Wisbech page," or else-

Yeah, yeah, yeah

... "Stockport has brought in The Mandalorian and Grogu dressed up for meet and greet.

The barges went in there, transferred.

their fruit that they got from the Wisbech area and all the fens, and they took coal out to the pumping stations because initially the pumping stations were wind.

When steam engines, you know, the stationary steam engines came along, they put steam engines in because with the wind, you

never know where the wind's going to blow.

Now, on today's show, we are going to be talking about the stigma of homelessness, especially within rural communities, and I'm joined today by two special guests.

I would like to welcome to the show Keith Smith, who is a consultant for Homeless Link, and he is also the former CEO, he's retired from this position now, but he has links with The Ferry Project, who of course host this podcast, because he used to be the CEO of The Ferry Project, which is a rural homelessness charity, um, in Wisbech in the east of England.

And we are also joined by Dr. Tunica, Karen Tunica, who is the senior lecturer in law at Kent University, and she's published some research with some other colleagues into issues around rural homelessness, which I'm sure we'll hear more about in the course of this interview.

So let's start with you, Karen.

So people might move out and use the internet and do jobs from home, and indeed we're both talking from home at the moment.

Okay? But there are loads of factory work, there's loads of land work, there's all sorts of work that takes place outside, and those jobs are often less secure than the jobs in, in more traditional factories and so on.

Okay? And certainly in Wisbech, in North Cambridge, or in across the Lincolnshire Fens and across the Norfolk Fens, okay, um, the individuals there are seasonal work.

It's all seasonal work.