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What happens to plastic waste in the UK?
recycle week
Environment

What happens to plastic waste in the UK?

The Big Issue at 30: Our story in numbers
The Big Issue
News

The Big Issue at 30: Our story in numbers

'Why don't the homeless just go home?' – The Big Issue's first cover story revisited
The Big Issue's first ever cover.
News

'Why don't the homeless just go home?' – The Big Issue's first cover story revisited

The Big Issue at 30: What it means to stars of screen, politics and music
Benedict Cumberbatch. The Big Issue
News

The Big Issue at 30: What it means to stars of screen, politics and music

The Big Issue in 30 moments: The '90s
News

The Big Issue in 30 moments: The '90s

The Big Issue vendor who became London’s happiest bus driver is now bringing drinking water to Africa
Patrick Lawson
News

The Big Issue vendor who became London’s happiest bus driver is now bringing drinking water to Africa

Independence, knowledge and experience add up to support you can trust
Housing

Independence, knowledge and experience add up to support you can trust

Tackling the stigma of homelessness
Tackling it together Shamela, a coach at Stonewater’s SAWR,
Housing

Tackling the stigma of homelessness

Imperial measurements? What’s really on the government agenda
Boris Johnson leaving Number 10. Imperial measures
Politics

Imperial measurements? What’s really on the government agenda

Homeless World Cup returns with all-British contest
Homeless World Cup
News

Homeless World Cup returns with all-British contest

Alarming things cabinet ministers have said in the past about their new briefs
Liz Truss who was named foreign secretary in the cabinet reshuffle
Politics

Alarming things cabinet ministers have said in the past about their new briefs

National insurance hike will leave NHS workers funding their own pay rise
Nurses voted to reject ministers' offer of a three per cent pay rise. National insurance rise
Employment

National insurance hike will leave NHS workers funding their own pay rise

Death of the high street: Why can't Dover afford a Big Issue seller?
Darren Roberts sells the Big Issue on the high street in Canterbury
News

Death of the high street: Why can't Dover afford a Big Issue seller?

Leaseholders take cladding fight to parliament to demand action over unsafe homes
cladding protest Westminster
Housing

Leaseholders take cladding fight to parliament to demand action over unsafe homes

Only 30 MPs turn up to debate cutting universal credit
MPs debating the universal credit cut in parliament today.
Politics

Only 30 MPs turn up to debate cutting universal credit

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick sacked in cabinet reshuffle
Robert Jenrick housing secretary
Politics

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick sacked in cabinet reshuffle

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
MPs vote to scrap universal credit cut as Tories abstain
Politics

MPs vote to scrap universal credit cut as Tories abstain

Universal credit cut shows ‘the poorest are penalised every time’
universal credit
Social Justice

Universal credit cut shows ‘the poorest are penalised every time’

Why doesn't Britain have a high street voucher scheme like Northern Ireland?
Politics

Why doesn't Britain have a high street voucher scheme like Northern Ireland?

Universal credit cut could leave young workers with just £51 a month
Nearly 40 per cent of young people facing the universal credit cut are already in work.
Social Justice

Universal credit cut could leave young workers with just £51 a month

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