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Lottie Elton
Lottie Elton is a staff reporter at the Big Issue. She previously worked at Euronews, and as a health and state politics reporter at The West Australian Newspaper. In this role, she won “Best New Journalist - Runner Up” in 2021.
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Justice system

Drug dealer explains how he turned his life around after realising he was 'going to end up dead'

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Image of woman getting warm by a fire
Warm banks

Inside UK's 'vital' libraries providing 'warm banks' as cost of living bites and households struggle

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Illustration of a robot teacher
Artificial Intelligence

AI may be coming for your job – but there is hope, experts insist: 'We have a choice'

Flooded Portaloos and outbreaks of scabies: Activists want 'appalling' Manston asylum centre closed
Manston migrant centre
Asylum seekers

Flooded Portaloos and outbreaks of scabies: Activists want 'appalling' Manston asylum centre closed

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cost of living
Big Issue Invest

Cost of living: Single mum who works full-time recalls struggle to pay bills – and how she found help

Real Living Wage rises to £12 an hour amid crippling cost of living crisis
Living wage

Real Living Wage rises to £12 an hour amid crippling cost of living crisis

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Football

Football fans are fed up of racism, sexism and homophobia. Here's how to kick it out for good

Britain's Tory-sympathising press is 'terrible' for democracy, experts warn
Freedom of the Press

Britain's Tory-sympathising press is 'terrible' for democracy, experts warn

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Sustainability

Most Brits bin electrical items if they break. These 'magic' Repair Cafés are trying to change that

Tory by-election candidate blasted over post telling jobless, struggling parents to 'f**k off'
Conservative Party

Tory by-election candidate blasted over post telling jobless, struggling parents to 'f**k off'

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Big Issue Recruit

I quit work to care for my mum. Big Issue Recruit helped me find my sense of purpose again

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Justice system

'I had to do something': Ex-prisoner explains how love for his kids helped him turn his life around

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