Heartbreaking reality of energy bills crisis

Mum can’t afford to make final memories with her girls as cash goes on power

- LUCY THORNTON

DYING MUM’S PLIGHT

My kids are being robbed of special memories.. I don’t have long, but we can’t afford to do things, we just stay at home now – TAMMY PRESCOTT, 43

GIVEN six months to live a year ago, Tammy Prescott knows she is on borrowed time and would love to spend the summer enjoying treats and days out with her beloved family.

But huge energy bills and spiralling inflation mean there is no spare cash to make happy memories with her husband Lintyn, 55, and daughters, Sadie, 12, and Poppy, 10.

Tammy, 43, said: “This is the time you’re supposed to be making special memories, doing things, ticking off things on your bucket list.

“It’s scary for the girls and they know it’s coming. It would be wonderful to go on the go-karts with them, or to the seaside, and jump in a car and go somewhere, but you can’t because of the petrol cost.

“We can’t afford to do things, we just stay at home now. I have to keep the heating on because I get so cold and it goes into my bones.”

Tammy had to give up her job as a children’s nursery manager after she was diagnosed with stomach cancer in September last year and given just six months to live.