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'No one has been housed for a month': Afghan refugees still stuck in hotel limbo 9 months on
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Afghan refugees

'No one has been housed for a month': Afghan refugees still stuck in hotel limbo 9 months on

How to keep cooking and hot water costs down if the energy crisis has increased your bill
Gas hob
Cost of living crisis

How to keep cooking and hot water costs down if the energy crisis has increased your bill

Martin Lewis grills chancellor Rishi Sunak on why some people won't get additional cost of living support
A screenshot from a livestream video shows Rishi Sunak sitting in a warehouse with Martin Lewis in an onset picture
Cost of living crisis

Martin Lewis grills chancellor Rishi Sunak on why some people won't get additional cost of living support

Buckingham Palace is offering below minimum wage pay for a live-in housekeeper
Minimum wage

Buckingham Palace is offering below minimum wage pay for a live-in housekeeper

How you can have your say on Priti Patel's anti-protest Public Order Bill
borders bill windrush
Public Order Bill

How you can have your say on Priti Patel's anti-protest Public Order Bill

Cleaners to protest outside Downing Street after Sue Gray revelations of 'repugnant' treatment
Downing Street cleaners
Partygate

Cleaners to protest outside Downing Street after Sue Gray revelations of 'repugnant' treatment

Rishi Sunak's cost of living support won't be enough for struggling families, charities warn
Image of Chancellor Rishi Sunak
Cost of Living Crisis

Rishi Sunak's cost of living support won't be enough for struggling families, charities warn

Energy companies tried to scrap requirement to help customers struggling to pay bills
universal credit and benefits
Energy crisis

Energy companies tried to scrap requirement to help customers struggling to pay bills

What Rishi Sunak's new cost of living measures mean for you
Cost of living crisis

What Rishi Sunak's new cost of living measures mean for you

Exclusive: Tracey Emin artwork removed from 10 Downing Street after complaint about Partygate
Tracey Emin
Partygate

Exclusive: Tracey Emin artwork removed from 10 Downing Street after complaint about Partygate

New homes must produce 30% less carbon from next month - but experts fear scheme won't work
Green homes

New homes must produce 30% less carbon from next month - but experts fear scheme won't work

Expect delays: Why there are so many transport strikes planned for this summer
Transport

Expect delays: Why there are so many transport strikes planned for this summer

Sue Gray report exposes 'repugnant' treatment of Downing Street cleaners and security staff
Partygate

Sue Gray report exposes 'repugnant' treatment of Downing Street cleaners and security staff

The Church of England is getting into homebuilding to ‘turn the tide of the housing crisis’
Justin Welby has announced plans to tackle the housing crisis
Housing

The Church of England is getting into homebuilding to ‘turn the tide of the housing crisis’

'How does he sleep at night?': MPs tell Boris Johnson to resign over Sue Gray report
Ian Blackford
Partygate

'How does he sleep at night?': MPs tell Boris Johnson to resign over Sue Gray report

'Wine time Fridays', 'excessive drinking' and leaving via the back door: The Sue Gray report is out
Partygate

'Wine time Fridays', 'excessive drinking' and leaving via the back door: The Sue Gray report is out

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Family of 5 accused of 'deliberately' living in a tiny studio flat win High Court battle
Campaigners celebrate high court win against Southwark Council
Housing crisis

Family of 5 accused of 'deliberately' living in a tiny studio flat win High Court battle

'Covid has made homelessness so much worse': Meet the man who sleeps rough at Davos
Andrew Funk and Marco Robinson in Davos
Davos

'Covid has made homelessness so much worse': Meet the man who sleeps rough at Davos

One in four women of colour have experienced racial slurs at work, report finds
Racism

One in four women of colour have experienced racial slurs at work, report finds

Police anti-racism plan can't work if stop and search powers are increased, campaigners say
police crime sentencing and courts bill
Racism

Police anti-racism plan can't work if stop and search powers are increased, campaigners say