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DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you're eligible
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DWP payment dates for benefits and pensions in May 2024 – and how to know if you're eligible
'People need aid, not criminalisation': Sadiq Khan's comments on shoplifting nappies spark debate
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'People need aid, not criminalisation': Sadiq Khan's comments on shoplifting nappies spark debate
Village of 'beautiful homes' for homeless people to be built in Lanarkshire by Social Bite
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Village of 'beautiful homes' for homeless people to be built in Lanarkshire by Social Bite
Lesbian Visibility Week: There's 'enormous power' in being a lesbian – but stigma and shame persist
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Lesbian Visibility Week: There's 'enormous power' in being a lesbian – but stigma and shame persist
Who owns the moon? How the lunar frontier could become the new Wild West
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Who owns the moon? How the lunar frontier could become the new Wild West
Here's what happened when 1,000 smartphones and tablets were given to homeless people
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Here's what happened when 1,000 smartphones and tablets were given to homeless people
Will Labour's plan to renationalise rail really work? And will it make train tickets cheaper?
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Will Labour's plan to renationalise rail really work? And will it make train tickets cheaper?
Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has 'violated disabled people's rights'
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Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has 'violated disabled people's rights'
Hedgerows are amazing. Here's why we must plant more of them
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Hedgerows are amazing. Here's why we must plant more of them
Tory renting reforms pass Commons with no date for no-fault eviction ban: 'It needs major surgery'
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Tory renting reforms pass Commons with no date for no-fault eviction ban: 'It needs major surgery'
Activist to take DWP to court over disability benefit reforms: 'Disabled voices should be heard'
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Activist to take DWP to court over disability benefit reforms: 'Disabled voices should be heard'
Nearly 100 MPs earned more than £10,000 as landlords in the last 12 months
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Nearly 100 MPs earned more than £10,000 as landlords in the last 12 months
Michael Gove U-turns on promise to ban no-fault evictions before general election
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Michael Gove U-turns on promise to ban no-fault evictions before general election
Anti-poverty campaigner and former Labour minister Frank Field dies aged 81: 'He saved many lives'
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Anti-poverty campaigner and former Labour minister Frank Field dies aged 81: 'He saved many lives'
The comeback kids: The 5 'lost' wildlife species returning from extinction to the UK
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The comeback kids: The 5 'lost' wildlife species returning from extinction to the UK
London mayor Sadiq Khan: 'What would I do if I saw someone stealing nappies? Take my wallet out and pay'
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London mayor Sadiq Khan: 'What would I do if I saw someone stealing nappies? Take my wallet out and pay'
No-fault evictions will be scrapped 'in name only' under Tory renting reforms, campaigners warn
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No-fault evictions will be scrapped 'in name only' under Tory renting reforms, campaigners warn
St George's Day: Why we mustn't let Englishness be hijacked by the far-right
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St George's Day: Why we mustn't let Englishness be hijacked by the far-right
'We will do all we can to resist': Sunak gets Rwanda plan through parliament – so what happens now?
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'We will do all we can to resist': Sunak gets Rwanda plan through parliament – so what happens now?
'It's evil what they're doing': DWP denying benefits to people with schizophrenia and mental illness
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