内容摘要：Send Road was closed for several hours between the junctions with Tannery Lane and Send Marsh Road.

Send Road was closed for several hours between the junctions with Tannery Lane and Send Marsh Road.

"I was in and out of hospital," she said. "My minimum stay was around two and half weeks... just literally through the pain."At one point, the chronic gynaecological condition - in which cells similar to those in the lining of the womb grow in other parts of the body - caused Steph to be on her period for a year.

A surgery to try and remove the tissue that had spread to Steph's other organs went badly, resulting in a two-month stay in hospital."Work were saying... you're not in a position when you can work for us any more," said Steph."This was a dream job, I hadn't long started.

"[I] had the support at the beginning from the employers. Then it shattered, and there was no support."More needs to be done... you feel alone, you feel like you're going crazy."

In a week where the government is focusing on getting people back to work because of a growing welfare bill, partially due to a rise in people on long-term sickness leave, the women who attend the new support group in Derbyshire say more can be done to invest in endometriosis support.

women's earnings drop after they are diagnosed with the condition, with some leaving the workforce altogether., Shropshire, gave evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Committee at the start of April and told MPs he had asked a government official "do you still want me?", amid uncertainty over his role.

This week, the issue was again raised in the Commons, with Conservative frontbencher Katie Lam was among MPs demanding updates on the local inquiries."Over three months since the Government announced these local inquiries, Tom Crowther KC, a barrister invited by the Home Office to help establish them, knows almost nothing about their progress, and neither do we," she told the Commons.

Responding, Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips said councils will be able to access a £5m fund to support locally-led work on grooming gangs."Following feedback from local authorities, the fund will adopt a flexible approach to support both full independent local inquiries and more bespoke work, including local victims' panels or locally-led audits into the handling of historic cases," she said.