Tier 4 Christmas Gallery
Read MoreA young girl plays alone with her dolls this year rather than celebrating Christmas with other children. She is an only child and would normally have seen her two cousins at Christmas. It was very hard for her when her family skyped her Grandad in New Zealand because people over there could get together for Christmas and she saw lots of her young family members all playing together.
Suzanne, 84 years old lives on her own. Suzanne doesn’t have access technology for video calling but says she has received more Christmas cards this year, around 50 in fact. She feels a great sense of solitude at the moment, not least of all because she doesn’t know many other people in her situation and feels that elderly people on their own are underrepresented in the media. “The BBC news never shows any older person with no family. It makes me feel worthless and causes survivors guilt.” As an avid music fan she takes solace in listening to music, a friend who rings her every evening and letters from a young singer who I know who is working in Germany.