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Yorkshire history book climbs Amazon charts as thousands exploit loophole to raise money for food banks
food bank christmas
Activism

Yorkshire history book climbs Amazon charts as thousands exploit loophole to raise money for food banks

Ambulance strikes: Paramedics explain why the NHS is 'utterly and completely broken'
NHS strikes

Ambulance strikes: Paramedics explain why the NHS is 'utterly and completely broken'

These 'green doctors' are not just saving people money on their energy bills. They are saving lives
Cost of living crisis

These 'green doctors' are not just saving people money on their energy bills. They are saving lives

The Environment Act targets have been published. So what do they really mean?
River Derwent
Environment Act

The Environment Act targets have been published. So what do they really mean?

Nurse and ambulance strikes are supported by more than two-thirds of the British public, says YouGov
NHS nurses hold placards expressing their opinion during a protest outside St. Thomas' Hospital in central London on day one of the two strikes taking place this month.
Strikes

Nurse and ambulance strikes are supported by more than two-thirds of the British public, says YouGov

'People feel they don’t have a right to celebrate': Christmas in a bomb shelter in Ukraine
A christmas tree and child in a Ukraine bomb shelter
News

'People feel they don’t have a right to celebrate': Christmas in a bomb shelter in Ukraine

Cop15 is over. What progress was made?
Cop15
Cop15

Cop15 is over. What progress was made?

How to help Aisling Bea rally people power against hunger
AISLING BEA photo by Joseph Sinclair
Community

How to help Aisling Bea rally people power against hunger

Diary of a food bank manager: 'This Christmas, we're far beyond the choice between eating or heating'
Earlsfield Food bank volunteers sort donations
Diary of a food bank manager

Diary of a food bank manager: 'This Christmas, we're far beyond the choice between eating or heating'

Benefits system is forcing people on to the streets, Gordon Brown warns
Gordon Brown
Social Justice

Benefits system is forcing people on to the streets, Gordon Brown warns

'Mr Christmas' turns his home into a winter wonderland with 25,000 lights for charity
Mark Abbott's Christmas lights
News

'Mr Christmas' turns his home into a winter wonderland with 25,000 lights for charity

These primary students are going for Christmas number one to raise money for their school
children singing at Barn Croft school
Cost of Living

These primary students are going for Christmas number one to raise money for their school

This food bank was going under. Then a group of hobby writers found an Amazon infinite money glitch
food bank
Activism

This food bank was going under. Then a group of hobby writers found an Amazon infinite money glitch

Miriam Margolyes calls for football World Cup 2030 to be in LGBTQ+ friendly country
World Cup

Miriam Margolyes calls for football World Cup 2030 to be in LGBTQ+ friendly country

How to make your Christmas dinner sustainable
christmas dinner
Christmas

How to make your Christmas dinner sustainable

Teaching social housing tenants how to complain to their landlord 'will not address the imbalance'
Social housing

Teaching social housing tenants how to complain to their landlord 'will not address the imbalance'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Big Issue sellers are seven times more likely to need food and fuel support this Christmas
Big Issue vendor
Big Issue vendors

Big Issue sellers are seven times more likely to need food and fuel support this Christmas

Why MP Zarah Sultana is fighting for free school meals
Zarah Sultana gives a speech standing behind a lectern with
Free school meals

Why MP Zarah Sultana is fighting for free school meals

Christmas on the picket line: What it's like being on strike during the festive season
Christmas

Christmas on the picket line: What it's like being on strike during the festive season

Meet the inventors 'on a mission to make plastic disappear' – with seaweed
Two mean smile while holding sheets of seaweed up by their heads
Plastic

Meet the inventors 'on a mission to make plastic disappear' – with seaweed

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