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Caseworker for Labour MP. Welfare Benefits etc. Trying to mitigate the impact of food/fuel poverty, health inequality, social injustice. Labour 🌹Views my own

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@SarahFreeney
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2 years
Got to work to find an elderly gentleman has been sat outside waiting for me. He’s been really anxious all weekend. Housing benefit has stopped because he couldn’t manage to digitally send proof of pension, despite explaining his struggles. Digital exclusion is a huge issue
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@SarahFreeney
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10 months
“ It takes courage to push things forward” 18 years gone today RIP Mo ❤️🌹
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
3 years
Bumped into the rich kids from the private school in the wealthiest part of the area…
@Matt_VickersMP
Matt Vickers
3 years
Bumped into the @yarmschool massif during Rishi's visit to the High Street today. Lots of positivity, very happy that the Chancellor could make time to speak to such an enthusiastic bunch!
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Sarah Freeney
1 year
Been on a suspected cancer fast track. Just got the all clear. I’m so relieved
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Saltburn cliffs from Redcar this morning
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Big thanks to @wesstreeting who joined us tonight at Redcar CLP. Was excellent. Really impressed.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
8 months
My mum lost her purse in Middlesbrough this morning & a very kind person drove all the way to Marske to drop it off. They left it in her porch. She wants to say thank you but has no idea who found it. She spent hours stressed & looking for it & is so grateful it has been found ❤️
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
7 months
My lovely dad has just died. It was peaceful. We are devastated. We love him ❤️
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Just been a bit cheeky. Had an appointment with a man this morning who is really isolated and no tv or radio. So I asked, got the funding agreed & went to Argos & bought him a radio. He’d said if he had a radio to listen to he wouldn’t feel so alone.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
4 years
CV updated and out there now. Sadly. Doubt I'll ever find anything as unique, varied, interesting or as brilliant as working for the amazing @annaturley though. One in a million ❤️
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
1 year
I campaign in 3 north east ‘red wall’ constituencies. And have worked for 2 north east MPs. Not once, has anyone mentioned small boats to me.
@SimonClarkeMP
Simon Clarke
1 year
Small boats are THE issue in my surgeries and on the doors. We have to do whatever it is takes to end what most northern voters at least think is an insult to our ability to police our borders, and a huge cost in terms of the resultant hotel bills.
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Sarah Freeney
1 year
See what Tory Jacob Young MP says about our public sector workers
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4 years
Tonight we drank, did video chat & celebrated the end of Corbynism. Feels bittersweet though. So good 'have our party back' but we've lost so much. We've lost the brilliantly talented MP @annaturley , lost the job I love & tories have control. @Keir_Starmer please do it right 🌹🤞
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Sarah Freeney
3 years
Got offered a new job today, which I’ve accepted. I’ll be running a new project to prevent people sinking further into poverty/ prevent poverty/ stop them going to loan sharks/high interest lenders/ help them see a way out and a future etc... chuffed
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
All of a sudden, I’m being fast tracked through the system for a tumour in my salivary gland. Consultant thinks it’s benign, because to be not, is very, very rare. Ultrasound & biopsy on Monday. Surreal & a bit scary if I’m honest. Keeping busy. All will be fine. Onwards…
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Sarah Freeney
5 years
Wow!! Marske Branch voted overwhelmingly to reselect our brilliant MP @annaturley tonight. Amazing turn out and huge support for Anna from my branch. 3 out of 3. Smashed it again!!
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3 years
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Sarah Freeney
5 years
Hugely successful AGM for Redcar CLP tonight. Moderates took every position and @PeoplesMomentum slate defeated yet again. Very happy.
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Sarah Freeney
7 months
Best I’ve ever seen Keir. That delivery. Outstanding
@Haggis_UK
Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
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Keir Starmer: "Think very carefully about what Suella Braverman is committing your government to do... because without a serious Home Secretary, there can be no serious government, & he cannot be a serious Prime Minister..." #KingsSpeech
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5 years
Excellent night with the fantastic @jessphillips tonight. What an inspirational woman!
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
My client’s just been awarded the Enhanced Daily Living and Enhanced Mobility components of PIP, backdated to August. She is now £152.15 per week better off. Both of us are over the moon. Happy Friday.
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Sarah Freeney
4 years
This is totally offensive. There are people from Redcar constituency who have taken their own lives as a direct result of Tory cuts. I have worked with their families and know the hardship they endured and the devastation caused. Not something to joke about
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
7am Redcar beach Good morning 🌞
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Sarah Freeney
4 years
Seeing what’s happened over the exam results is horrendous and I’m so frustrated to not be still in my previous job. Our team with our brilliant MP Anna would’ve been straight on this and fighting for the people of Redcar constituency. No voice standing up for people anymore
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
What an absolutely beautiful morning
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
New job. Delighted to be joining Alex Cunningham’s team today.
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Sarah Freeney
5 years
Still in the office at 7.45 pm on eve of the election. Just had a call to say @annaturley team have overturned a PIP decision. Enhanced rate awarded and backdated to July 2018. This is why we keep battling on ❤️🌹
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Sarah Freeney
9 months
Anna did it! Seconds before the monsoon. Congratulations @annaturley
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
11 months
My girl ❤️👩‍🎓
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
7 months
I do hope so 🤞
@PollingReportUK
UK Polling Report
7 months
LATEST SEAT PREDICTION: MIDDLESBROUGH SOUTH AND EAST CLEVELAND LAB GAIN FROM CON @SimonClarkeMP MAJ: 5.1% [UKPR Default]
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Sarah Freeney
1 year
Just heard about a school providing all the kids with a plain white t shirt and they then decorate them as their favourite book. Absolutely brilliant idea. No expense to parents. So simple.
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
As predictable as always, the Redcar tory MP brings out the ‘illegal immigrant’ card. Pathetic attempt to distract from the real news and pacify the racists
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Sarah Freeney
7 months
My dad was my biggest influence in music and politics. He got me my Labour Party membership when I turned 16 and took me to all the meetings and out canvassing. I really wanted him to hold on to see a Labour government again. I will miss him so much
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Another PIP decision just in. Gone from zero award to Enhanced Daily Living & Enhanced Mobility. This is £152.15 per week. And backdated. Times are really, really hard. People shouldn’t have to fight to get what they are entitled to.
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Sarah Freeney
5 years
Over the moon that Normanby & Ormesby branch have voted to reselect @annaturley tonight. Fantastic turn out again from members of Redcar CLP who have come out in support of our brilliant MP. 4 out of 4. Smashed it yet again.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
He needs to come tell that to the man I’m currently helping who has broken his back, can’t work & turned down for PIP. Or the teacher who’s been dismissed due to severe long term stress, lost her home & no money for food & fuel costs. These are 2 of 100’s
@AdamBienkov
Adam Bienkov
2 years
Conservative MP Lee Anderson says there isn't a massive need for food banks in the UK, it’s just that people “cannot cook properly, they can't cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget.”
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4 years
Redcar beach 1909. Suffragette meeting #redcar #suffragettes #themightyredcar
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Just had a single working mum in asking for help. 3 teenage daughters who have periods. She said the most difficult thing is having to restrict them going in the bath because she can’t afford the gas for the hot water. They don’t have a shower & can’t afford to get one
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
4 years
@JacobYoungMP Where did you ask? I’m a constituent and wasn’t asked. I do not support this one bit. How could you possibly deny helping those who are suffering?
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Sarah Freeney
1 year
My youngest child voted for the first ever time last Thurs. She told me tonight she went to the polling station on her own & didn’t have a clue what to do. The staff were helpful & she soon got the hang of it. She voted @UKLabour for @luke_myer & is delighted with the result 🌹
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Sarah Freeney
3 years
Just won a PIP appeal. Client (and me) are over the moon.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Been fighting a PIP refusal since last August. Had a written transcript of the medical assessment which I sent to DWP at MR stage. They ignored it. Tribunal just phoned, overturned decision & awarded enhanced for both components. Huge backdate coming. No need for appeal hearing
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Sarah Freeney
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My dad’s funeral this morning was incredible. What a turnout. Politics was a theme throughout, obviously. He was truly a one off and a very special funny man. Rest in peace dad. I love you xxx
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Good morning from Redcar Beach ♥️
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Sarah Freeney
4 years
Can hear my 18 year old daughter in her bedroom listening to @Lloyd_Cole . The classic Rattlesnakes album. Taught her well.
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Someone I’ve been helping has ended his life. Devastated.
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Wonderful place to live. How lucky we are
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Sarah Freeney
1 year
Jacob Young is having a bit of a melt down isn’t he?! Imagine what he’ll be like when it’s his own campaign in a GE! Moaning about negativity. He just can’t cope with the truth. 13 years of Tory failure wrecking our country and peoples lives.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
4 years
@annaturley And she’d be dead proud of you Anna for standing up to bullies, being principled and never backing down no matter what got thrown at you!
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
The beach is magnificent right now
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
3 years
With Oskar and Ramona. 3 weeks old today. Love them ♥️♥️
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
How on earth does Jacob Young have the time to be on Facebook all the time?
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Sarah Freeney
1 year
Over the moon to announce that my amazing baby Elizabeth has just found out she got a first in her degree. A FIRST! Very proud mum here ❤️
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Sarah Freeney
4 years
Seems I'm well thought of. I've been approached out of the blue about a job. Panicking a little less now.
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
11 yrs at Citizens Advice - benefit/debt caseworker, advice session supervisor, mortgage rescue caseworker representing clients at court & stopping evictions, MP senior caseworker & now running a project to tackle poverty & health inequality. Never ever felt so hopeless & bleak
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Had appointment with a client this morning who is an asylum seeker. Young daughter was bullied when first came here. She took up boxing, is now 14 & about to compete in national championship. Amazing young woman 💪
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Cliffs, behind the cliffs, behind the cliffs
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
I see Jacob Young is yet again trying to credit for another thing that had naff all to do with him
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
1 year
The anniversary of when my grand babies were shocked by the accidental flash Still laughing 😂
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Sarah Freeney
7 months
Dad ❤️
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Sarah Freeney
3 years
Jacob Young really does incite racial hatred doesn’t he? The comments on his Facebook posts are utterly vile and totally dehumanising and he just continues to stoke and stir. Disgusting. People of Redcar should be ashamed.
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2 years
I have my twin grand babies sleeping over for the night
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
5 years
@thedennisofa @jessphillips @margarethodge @jeremycorbyn For god sake, it's not all about Jeremy Corbyn. It's about time people looked at what MPs have achieved rather than always making it about that one man.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
1 year
3 years ago this morning I popped back to the office, to pick up my wet clothes. I’d got soaked on polling day and had to change for the count. As I was locking up, an elderly man came up to me and just said “This is a sad, sad day for Redcar”. I was in bits.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
7 months
It’s a horrible world. But here’s my 2 year old granddaughter being a lion ❤️
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Our MP has blocked me on FB today. I’ve never once engaged with him on there as he restricted me being able to comment as soon as he won the seat. Now he won’t even let me see his page. Wonder why.
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Sarah Freeney
1 year
Absolutely beautiful, if bitterly cold, morning in Stockton
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Just received a letter informing me of a £3657 backdated PIP payment which has been awarded. Very happy client. Another award going from zero to enhanced. I realise I’m a stuck record, & we do far more than challenging PIP decisions, but these original decisions are just bonkers.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
8 months
Brilliant to see Luciana back at conference #LabourConference23
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
4 years
My lockdown challenge photo this week #LockDownChallenge
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
£10, 667.22 backdate of PIP. Just paid. Result
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Sarah Freeney
3 years
Momentum exposing themselves for what they really are.
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3 years
@AldiUK If it’s from a pot then first. If made in the cup then last. And only a little bit.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Many of people I see are desperate to work. I see people who can’t can’t afford a phone. Can’t afford the bus fare to travel to an interview. Can’t afford food. Can’t afford clothes. Can’t afford electricity. Are tired, hungry, beaten down. It’s nothing to do with work ethic.
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
1 year
She’s the best of the best. I’m over the moon Anna is standing again. Hard working, kind, determined and a true fighter who always stands up for what’s right. Proud to call her a friend Go Anna 💪❤️🌹❤️🌹
@annaturley
Anna Turley 🌹🐝💙🇺🇦
1 year
Redcar and Cleveland means the world to me but for too long, we’ve been told we should put up with second best. I can’t stand by and let that go on. That’s why I’m standing to be selected as your Labour MP again. Join the team 👇
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2 years
Back from a few days annual leave to another PIP success: ‘Hi Sarah, DWP have called to inform me they’ve changed the decision and I’ve been awarded PIP. Thank you for all your help, I couldn’t have done it without you’ A lot of lovely cases amongst the really sad ones
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Sarah Freeney
4 years
Big congratulations to @annaturley for being the @RobertSmith #LockdownChallenge champion. Who knew what an outstanding artist she is?! 👏👏👏❤️
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
@RachelCurtis82 I’m so worried about people who are too scared to cancel their d/debit because they are afraid of debt. So many elderly people who have never got into debt before, are terrified what will happen if they don’t pay what they’ve been told to. They won’t be able to eat
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Fingers crossed the tories lose record numbers of council seats today. Good luck @UKLabour candidates 🌹
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Sarah Freeney
3 years
My grandchildren are out of their incubators ♥️♥️
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Sarah Freeney
3 years
Anyone know if Redcar MP is condemning the actions of his colleagues in Govt/Downing St?
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
The government is actually just taking a sledgehammer and smashing everything to pieces, isn’t it?
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Just got the news that my 25 year old has got a book deal. My kids never cease to amaze me.
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Sigh… how I wish we were still part of the EU 🇪🇺
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
2 years
Good door knocking session last night. I spoke to several people who voted Tory in 2019 & are coming back to Labour. One said voting Tory was the biggest regret of his life & “never again”. A few others didn’t vote in 2019 but will vote Labour at the next election. Onwards 🌹
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Sarah Freeney
3 years
My grandchildren. Born this morning. All 4lb 1oz and 3lb 11oz of them. Precious xxx
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
I’ve worked in advice and casework for a long time and have dealt with some incredibly difficult cases. But I’ve never known things so bleak with no prospect of them improving. Absolutely dreading with winter. Real crisis ahead
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Sarah Freeney
4 years
The way Anna was treated was appalling. It was heartbreaking and distressing. She is so brave. Standing up to bullies as she has done makes her a true hero and an inspiration to us all
@lmharpin
lee harpin
4 years
Justice Nicklin’s judgement in @annaturley case also slams @unitetheunion and @skwawkbox for their ‘conduct during the trial has seriously aggravated the harm to the Claimant’s reputation and her distress.’
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5 years
Great news coming from Eston that members have voted to show huge support for @annaturley in trigger meeting. Smashed it again
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Sarah Freeney
4 years
This present made me cry from my family made me cry ❤️ @annaturley
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Sarah Freeney
3 years
My beautiful grandchildren have just been discharged from hospital. Sad I can’t meet them until my Covid isolation is over but so happy they’re doing so amazingly. Here they are with their graduation bears from neonatal ICU ♥️♥️
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
Tomorrow will be 4 weeks since I last had alcohol. I don’t think I’ve gone more than a week without booze since I was a teenager. Sticking at this till at least April. I’m seeing everything in a different light and with a clearer head. I feel quite powerful
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@SarahFreeney
Sarah Freeney
1 year
AMAZING NEWS 🌹🌹🌹 Huge congratulations to the brilliant @luke_myer and to Vera too. TURNERS OUT
@EthanVickers04
Ethan Vickers Filmaking
1 year
BREAKING: Longbeck Cllr Announced: Luke Mya (LAB) Vera Rider (IND)
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
I’m in the process of writing a PIP appeal. The medical assessment states that the client was seen to raise both arms, was well presented & showed no signs of distress. It was a telephone assessment. This is what we are up against.
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
RIP Walshie. A lovely funeral service for @UKLabour legend Dave Walsh. What a man.
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
My dad has just said that one of his greatest pleasures now is to open the garage door really early on a morning then slam it shut ‘To waken the Brexiteers up’
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Sarah Freeney
2 years
The retail park in Skelton, Cleveland must have the best view of any retail park in the UK. Overlooking the sea. Right next to B&M. It’s stunning. #retailparkswithviews
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