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'The UK’s “roughest town” is so tough that “even the seagulls have flick knives.”
Grimsby, in northeast Lincolnshire on the Humber estuary, often gets a bad press. Once a major fishing hub, the industry dried up, plunging the town into deprivation.
The UK national average household income sits at around £32,000 – but in Grimsby, that number is £22,000 and within that, the neighbourhood of Eastmarsh has the lowest average household income. A recent visit byTalkTVsaw the outlet speak with one resident, single mum Cheryl, who allegedly lived in a property that was “covered in black mould and infested with mice” – but couldn’t afford to turn on the heating without taking away money from her children.
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“It’s very difficult, I’ve got four kids and I’m trying to keep on top of mould, mice and condensation windows,” she said.
“Give us an idea of how rough it is,” a man with crutches and a great beanie was asked. “Well the seagulls have got flick knives, it’s that rough” he joked in response. “Grimsby’s got issues, everyone got issues – like society, no one can afford to [feed] themselves,” a woman said in the street.
According toCrimeRate, Grimsby is the most dangerous settlement in Lincolnshire with 146 crimes per 1,000 people. It is the fourth most dangerous town in the UK bar Scotland.
While once 500 trawlers would leave Grimsby’s docks per day international competition destroyed the town’s output.
Recently, YouTuberWendalltook a walk around the town, with one local telling him the town “may be an ignorant backward s***hole… but it’s our ignorant backward s***hole”. Another local pointed out: “Half of us have got criminal records".
“People in their forties and below seem to be institutionalised by the state of things here… they don't really know any different,” Wendall said. He later added: “I've never seen so many boarded-up shops, but I've spoke to the locals about it and they're almost used to it”.
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