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Christmas dinner on a budget: How to make celeb chef Tom Kerridge's turkey meatloaf traybake
Illustration of a Christmas dinner
Christmas

Christmas dinner on a budget: How to make celeb chef Tom Kerridge's turkey meatloaf traybake

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cheap christmas dinner
Christmas dinner

Christmas on a budget: How to have turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings on the cheap

The Big Issue's ethical Christmas gift guide
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The Big Issue's ethical Christmas gift guide

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Service dogs

Comforting the ill and guiding the blind: These amazing service dogs all have very important jobs

Here's the bleak truth behind TikTok's 'girl dinner' craze
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TikTok

Here's the bleak truth behind TikTok's 'girl dinner' craze

Love Luxury boss Emily Abraham explains how she went from sofa surfing to CEO
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Homelessness

Love Luxury boss Emily Abraham explains how she went from sofa surfing to CEO

We started as a boxing gym – now we’re a whole community
Community

We started as a boxing gym – now we’re a whole community

Teachers with no special needs training are being 'thrown in at the deep end'
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Education

Teachers with no special needs training are being 'thrown in at the deep end'

There's a mental health crisis in NHS, says writer and comedian Adam Kay: 'So little is being done'
Adam Kay
Mental health

There's a mental health crisis in NHS, says writer and comedian Adam Kay: 'So little is being done'

Behind the till with Olivia Colman at Choose Love's refugee awareness pop-up shop
From left: Dawn O'Porter, Lily James, Pearl Mackie, Olivia Colman, Dermot O'Leary and Jamie Dornan wearing choose love t-shirts
Choose Love

Behind the till with Olivia Colman at Choose Love's refugee awareness pop-up shop

Why we should all get to know a sheep 
Lambs with their mother
Farming

Why we should all get to know a sheep 

'This Victorian-era law isn't fit for purpose': Is abortion finally going to be decriminalised?
A protester holds a 'My body, my choice' placard.
Abortion

'This Victorian-era law isn't fit for purpose': Is abortion finally going to be decriminalised?

I found out I had HIV when I was pregnant. But in 2023, stigma is more harmful than the virus
World AIDS Day

I found out I had HIV when I was pregnant. But in 2023, stigma is more harmful than the virus

Letters: Minimum wage is meaningless without a defined maximum wage
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Letters

Letters: Minimum wage is meaningless without a defined maximum wage

This orchestra is giving dementia sufferers something to sing about: 'Music changes lives'
Two people dance in front of a small orchestra in a church
Dementia

This orchestra is giving dementia sufferers something to sing about: 'Music changes lives'

Letters: Big Pharma will always put profits before ethics
Letters

Letters: Big Pharma will always put profits before ethics

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The future of travel

Workaways: How to travel the world without spending a penny

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Black friday: illustration of the ascent of man
Black Friday

Black Friday's capitalist roots actually stretch back 3.4 million years. No, seriously

Meet the 'Queenagers' breathing life into the travel industry: 'You've got to go for it'
A woman poses beside pyramids
the future of travel

Meet the 'Queenagers' breathing life into the travel industry: 'You've got to go for it'

Wagamama launches cooking classes at female prison to give inmates 'a second chance'
wagamama helping prisoners
Prisons

Wagamama launches cooking classes at female prison to give inmates 'a second chance'

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