A wheelchair user who lives on her own has praised the effect her cats have onher mental health, saying she does not know how she would have made it throughlockdown without them.
Fuchsia Carter, from Lewes in East Sussex, has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and has been particularly hard hit by restrictions introducedduring the coronavirus pandemic.
Not only has she been unable to go out andsee friends, her carers have also stopped coming to her home, meaning her twocats - Lucretia and Aurelia - have been her main source of companionship.