内容摘要：“When I got to school there were two teachers on the front door and they said: ‘you’ve got eyelashes on’," she said.

“When I got to school there were two teachers on the front door and they said: ‘you’ve got eyelashes on’," she said.

Cookes' story began to unravel further when she appeared on TikTok in 2022 under the name Carrie Jade Williams, giving an account of allegedly living with the degenerative Huntington's disease.She received support and even financial aid, including welfare payments from the Irish state.

When one of her posts went viral, some social media sleuths discovered that Carrie Jade was not her real identity and she was faking her illness.Women affected by her scams across the UK and Ireland set up a WhatsApp group called Scammed by Samantha."We've stopped talking about her and now we talk about ourselves," Hillery said.

The new mayor of Lincolnshire has said she will be meeting with a fracking company to discuss a business case to extract gas from underground in the county.Dame Andrea Jenkyns said the move would "really save money for the Lincolnshire taxpayers".

She was speaking on the

after winning the contest to become the first mayor of Greater Lincolnshire on Thursday. Her party, Reform UK, will also take over the running of the county council from the Conservatives."We do care work because we actually do care, you have to have a lot of care courage and you have to be committed to it.

"Dementia patients can be a challenge but if a resident wants something, we try and give it to them," said Ms Rieta.Nadra Ahmed, the chair of the National Care Association, said: "The reality is that we can't recruit local people to undertake this critical role, so we have had to choose the more costly route of using the foreign visa scheme, which was put in place to tackle the workforce crisis we faced in the sector post Brexit and Covid.

"Without [the visa scheme] we will have to limit what we can deliver, and in some cases that will mean the services are not viable."They will have no options but to close and this will impact of those we support."