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A woman with severe sight loss has said she is losing sleep over changes to the welfare system announced by the UK government.

“Neither of us loses sleep over it. It’s been that way for years. It was like he was saying, ‘Keep that between me and you.’

Her great-uncle had issued a mandate from his village that they would not mourn his sister’s death in typical Zambian fashion: No one would sleep over at the house; no one would wail in sorrow.

He takes the bus instead, the one he would sleep over at a coach's house to catch.

I received late-night calls from Somalis who said they were unable to sleep over the controversial proposal.