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Since the incident, Dean says she has constantly been on edge.

Campaigners estimate more than 300,000 homes could lose heating - or have it stuck on constantly - in what energy regulator Ofgem has called "an urgent consumer welfare issue".

They become archetypes in the Black American mythmaking tradition and arbiters of our constantly shifting Black myth.

Dr Kirtley said the sound had prevented her from sleeping properly for several weeks, adding: "It's impossible to ignore - it is like somebody shouting in your face constantly for attention."

Receiving the guaranteed income had freed her from the suffocating sensation of constantly worrying about money.