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Clean air group creates tool to help people demand stricter government targets on pollution
A busy road with traffic
Air pollution

Clean air group creates tool to help people demand stricter government targets on pollution

Police forced to scrap order that banned a homeless man from carrying a cup
homeless tent
Homelessness

Police forced to scrap order that banned a homeless man from carrying a cup

Boris Johnson set to scrap plan to let workers keep tips despite admitting minimum wage isn’t enough to live on
Workers' rights

Boris Johnson set to scrap plan to let workers keep tips despite admitting minimum wage isn’t enough to live on

Local elections 2022: your complete guide to the votes happening across the UK on May 5
A polling station sign hangs on a wire fence outside a building
Local elections

Local elections 2022: your complete guide to the votes happening across the UK on May 5

Former Tory minister reveals he's voting for Labour in the local elections - and did in 1997 too
Nick Boles
Local elections

Former Tory minister reveals he's voting for Labour in the local elections - and did in 1997 too

Shell’s profits have soared to £7.3bn as the energy crisis leaves families unable to pay their bills
Shell sign
Energy crisis

Shell’s profits have soared to £7.3bn as the energy crisis leaves families unable to pay their bills

'Significant concerns' over Ukraine refugees becoming homeless in UK
Ukraine
Homelessness

'Significant concerns' over Ukraine refugees becoming homeless in UK

Why food prices are increasing so much
UK cost of living inflation
Cost of living crisis

Why food prices are increasing so much

These people are ‘levelling up’ their area by renovating derelict homes and renting them out on the cheap
East Marsh United gone from litter picking to renting
Community activism

These people are ‘levelling up’ their area by renovating derelict homes and renting them out on the cheap

Charities are taking legal action against the government over its plans to send refugees to Rwanda
Home Secretary Priti Patel and Minister Biruta sign the migration and economic development partnership between the UK and Rwanda
Home Office

Charities are taking legal action against the government over its plans to send refugees to Rwanda

Mums Stronger Together: How business leaders are tackling maternal mental health stigma
Today is World Maternal Mental Health Day
Mental Health

Mums Stronger Together: How business leaders are tackling maternal mental health stigma

'Politics needs to be real': Why more independent candidates are standing in this year's local elections
Politics

'Politics needs to be real': Why more independent candidates are standing in this year's local elections

Billie Eilish to lead six-day climate change conference in London
Climate change

Billie Eilish to lead six-day climate change conference in London

Right to Buy: Boris Johnson's plan to extend scheme branded the ‘opposite of what the country needs’
right to buy
Right to Buy

Right to Buy: Boris Johnson's plan to extend scheme branded the ‘opposite of what the country needs’

There's been almost no improvement in the water quality of UK rivers for a decade
The River Derwent. Tory MPs voted down amendments to stop water companies dumping sewage in rivers and seas. Photo: © Malcolm Coils (cc-by-sa/2.0)
River pollution

There's been almost no improvement in the water quality of UK rivers for a decade

Boris Johnson boasts about his Freedom Pass after being told pensioner rides bus all day to keep warm
Cost of living crisis

Boris Johnson boasts about his Freedom Pass after being told pensioner rides bus all day to keep warm

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
‘We can't say we don’t know how to solve homelessness’: Charity says lockdown success leaves no excuses
homelessness
Homelessness

‘We can't say we don’t know how to solve homelessness’: Charity says lockdown success leaves no excuses

How a stationery company is helping disadvantaged women rediscover their self-worth
Jenny Adjene (far left) with her core team outside their shop in Tavistock, Devon. Courtesy of Hip Hip Hooray
Social Justice

How a stationery company is helping disadvantaged women rediscover their self-worth

Tory MP Neil Parish resigns after admitting twice watching porn in the House of Commons
Neil Parish
Westminster sleaze

Tory MP Neil Parish resigns after admitting twice watching porn in the House of Commons

The controversial new laws rushed through by the government this week
boris johnson
Politics

The controversial new laws rushed through by the government this week

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