... as 142,000 Scottish families could not afford to feed their 255.000 children an 1876 Workhouse diet at present Income Support levels. At today's prices, a Workhouse diet would cost £5.46 per week per children - 30% more than the estimated £4.15 that Income ...

... 1o take on the world,” says producer Chris Mann (who has clearly forgotten about the darker side of Victorian Britain — workhouses, women down pits and kids up chimneys, young girls forced into prostitution, etc). “*Sometimes their music canseemover- ...

... high the State decides to introduce a system outmoded in the Middle Ages. Even in the days of Dickens they supplied the Workhouse and all its horrors. But it was shelter and food. Not so under the Thatcher Government who appear to think nothing of the ...

... book-binding (4) 14, 20 and 1 Down. Fa- u.. . “ 1: Roman god of the sea mous work by 16 and 22 (/) 367 2 19. Surname of a workhouse (3,6,7) o . 15. ---- the Great, first Em- b 5z official in Oliver Twist (6) pororrussin ) P | ITWL L ] 20sees 16 and 22. ...

... sea-fish 6) 2 17. One of two sensory organs of an insect (7) 18. Plant genus that includes sea-lavender (7) 19. Surname of a workhouse official in Oliver Twist (6) 20. In sloping type (6) 21. A breakwater of wood, etc (6) 24. Another name for gumbo (4) See ...

... singer, wife of Kurt Weill (5,5) 7. Author famous for Dr Zhivago, etc (5,9) 12 and 21. Dickens’s novel about a boy born in a workhouse (6,5) 14. Perennial herbthatmay be used as a substitute for celery (6) 16. Dance or tune in slow waltz time (6) 17. Leaves ...

... concern which enhanced his distinctive voice. Despite the depressing theme of child abuse, in the way Grimes mistreats his workhouse apprentices, there are moments of hilarity and humour as well as pereeplive comments on the disruptive effect of rumour and ...