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Lucy Mansfield

LucyMansfield is a freelance investigative journalist

March 2021

  • Bar manager Katharine Simmons in Carlisle, Cumbria

    'Young people need help now': Britons want more from 2021 budget

  • Mumtaz Khan

    'Families are struggling': Britons react to Rishi Sunak's 2021 budget

June 2020

  • A gravedigger paints numbers on crosses at the Sao Francisco Xavier cemetery in Rio de Janeiro during the coronavirus pandemic.

    Coronavirus live
    Costa Rica to halt reopening of economy as virus cases rise – as it happened

    Agency says people are tiring of lockdowns despite an accelerating spread of the disease
  • A woman looking at information about abortion pills

    Charities report rise in Maltese requests for abortion pills during lockdown

    Women in Malta, where abortion is banned, have been unable to travel abroad for terminations
  • Naomi Connor of Alliance for Choice

    Doctors accused of blocking abortions in Northern Ireland despite legalisation

    Patients forced to buy pills online or go overseas for terminations

May 2020

  • Plumber Ian Fisher

    How are Britons faring since coronavirus hit the economy?

    The Guardian revisits people who spoke to us on ‘budget day’ to ask them how the crisis has affected their finances

February 2020

  • Sarah Gaudszun

    Botched mole removal: 'They looked worse – they kept growing back'

  • Mole on skin

    Revealed: beautician procedures leaving customers burned and scarred

January 2020

  • HMRC Self Assessment Notice to complete a UK tax return

    ‘Not fit for purpose’: tax glitch putting pensions of self-employed at risk

    Accountant says HMRC did nothing to fix national insurance issue in self-assessment system

August 2019

  • A ping-pong game at High Down prison, where violent behaviour has fallen by 83% among attendees.

    The upside
    How ping pong helps prisoners turn the tables on violence and reoffending

    A weekly table tennis session at HMP High Down improves behaviour, provides coaching skills – and boosts confidence