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Cronavirus special: Wallasey's old women have their say

Wirral's beleaguered pensioners, many of them women, have in recent months contacted our news desk to describe hellish living conditions during the current peninsula-wide restrictions. By Michelle Suit, Editor-At-Large. Even before lockdowns began, many aged female Wirraliens were feeling the pinch with local bed and floorboard taxes slashing precious pounds from already inadequate pensions resulting in many women being forced into the drugs or sex trade in order to survive. One such oldster, 94 year-old Verinal Gutteridge of Knight Terrace, Badington, wrote: ''Since my Arthur died, I spent most of my days sitting by the one-bar electric fire staring at his empty bowl. The neighbours knocked but I just couldn't summon the will to answer the door. Eventually, the stench alerted the authorities and I was airlifted to our Becky's''. Vera was just one of a number of women in the area to complain to our helpline about the lack of food, electricity and other lux

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