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Lockdown plus autumn sends loneliness soaring The week after the clocks went back saw Britain's highest levels of loneliness since the pandemic began, according to Office for National Statistics figures.
The start of November, with darker evenings, had 4.2 million adults always or often lonely, compared with 2.6 million before the pandemic.
This was the peak in levels of acute loneliness since the lockdown in March. BBC News
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