内容摘要：A shortage notice about supplies of the insulin that she uses was sent to all surgeries and pharmacies in Wales in March, but Gwen said she was not made aware of this.

A shortage notice about supplies of the insulin that she uses was sent to all surgeries and pharmacies in Wales in March, but Gwen said she was not made aware of this.

Chief executive of Manx Deaf Society Lucy Buxton said: "Hearing us is one of those things that if you can't hear what is going on around you, you can't necessarily contribute to the conversation."As hearing loss was a hidden disability, the awareness week helped to "bring it back into the forefront of people's minds", she said.

"It is all about how can we be a better, more welcoming, accommodating and compassionate society because you never know when you are going to lose your hearing," she added.Lesley Cullen from Port Erin, who faces hearing loss said she can find socialising hard and as she can only hear people when in one-to-one situation it can be "very lonely".She said: "A positive is I can't hear the tap dripping, storms at night or the clock ticking", adding: "I'm not distracted when I'm playing golf."

But she said increasing the the number of hearing loops available in public places would make things better from her perspective."When someone is giving a talk the facilities should be improved for people with hearing loss so we're not left out," she added.

Heather Hurt from Peel said her hearing had been deteriorating since she reached her 40s and as a result she started to use a hearing aid.

She said while she had lost her confidence in social situations since experiencing hearing loss, she had "become more confident" in advocating for herself and others with a similar disability".Efforts by the Mexican government have also brought crossings down, including setting up new checkpoints and increasing patrols.

In May, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the number of migrants at the US southern border had halved from a peak of 12,000 a day to 6,000 a day.The vast majority of people who cross the US southern border are citizens of nearby countries in the Americas.

show that in the current financial year (October 2023 - September 2024), the most common nationality encountered at the southern border were Mexicans (617,770).This was followed by nearly a quarter of a million Venezuelans and almost 200,000 Guatemalans.