51�Թ�

“I thought it was too good to be true, but I took a chance,” said one, Melanie Habon, whose immigrant parents from the Philippines encouraged her to become a structural engineer.

When Melanie Ehrenkranz, the founder of the ‘Laid Off’ Substack newsletter, launched her newsletter for unemployed workers in August 2024, she didn’t expect to create a vibrant, active community of over 11,000 readers in less than a year.

Narine Mkrtchyan, a lawyer for Hernandez’s 18-year-old daughter, Melanie Hernandez, said the decision meant “justice has been served.”

Melanie Wensby-Scott sat in her car and cried on the day she and her husband left Northgate House, which sits right next to the road not far from Morpeth.

Melanie and her husband Julian had had "big plans" when they bought the house in 2009.