'We’ve been forgotten': locked-down Leicester teeters on brink of despair

Overlooked between north and south, locals want to know when their long purgatory will come to an end

Mezmin Malida's neighbours have been wondering what she's up to for a while now. Seven days a week, several times a day, they see her load up every crevice of a BMW with mysterious bin liners and boxes until the pile looks like it might topple into the driver's seat, and then head off into Leicester and return a few hours later having got rid of the lot. Also, they ask themselves, why do the police keep coming round?

There's nothing for them to worry about. Malida, 39, is a trustee of Rosemina's Outreach Project, and a one-woman Deliveroo for Leicester's most vulnerable people as they wait out a crisis that feels like it will never end. (She also does community support work with the police, which explains the visits.)