This week’s edition of the award-winning Big Issue magazine is on the streets now, priced at £2.50, with 50% of the cover price going directly to the vendor.

The Big Issue has joined forces with Avon, HarperCollins to find Britain's next great crime writer. Launching on 4 March, the competition will be accepting submissions from across the UK and the winner will receive a two-book deal with the HarperCollins division

The hearse passed the 52-year-old’s former Tesco pitch as more than 200 people lined the streets for his send-off

Pupils at 14 schools across Scotland will be selling the special edition this week after The Big Issue partnered with the Social Enterprise Academy to give young people a platform to raise awareness of the big issues they care about