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Back in Leeds after her 400-mile round trip taking her father to his appointment, Christine Bell says at times she found it hard to think of herself as carer to her parents.

But it doesn’t mean that after the round trip of tariffs-on-tariffs-off the economy is back to where it might otherwise have been or that they’re otherwise unimportant.

Nowadays, my knees complain and the round trip takes two hours.

Mr Wright asked if there were not restaurants in Carlisle they could have visited rather than make a three-hour round trip on an afternoon when storms were forecast to hit the area.

The families live on the Isle of Sheppey, but have been offered places at schools on the mainland, which they say will mean a round trip of about 60 miles.