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Rough sleeping up 21% in London over last year ahead of "inevitable rise"
Rough sleeper
Housing

Rough sleeping up 21% in London over last year ahead of "inevitable rise"

Firms eyed 300,000 redundancies in summer due to Covid-19
Employment

Firms eyed 300,000 redundancies in summer due to Covid-19

UK in poverty crisis as Scotland foodbank demand doubles
Food bank Trussell Trust
Social Justice

UK in poverty crisis as Scotland foodbank demand doubles

Worried about your home? This is the guide you need
Housing

Worried about your home? This is the guide you need

Jenrick promises £12bn affordable homes boost and Shared Ownership shake-up
Robert Jenrick
Housing

Jenrick promises £12bn affordable homes boost and Shared Ownership shake-up

Popular Big Issue vendor voluntarily gave up flat during Covid-19 lockdown
Gary Phillps Saltburn
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Popular Big Issue vendor voluntarily gave up flat during Covid-19 lockdown

David Kynaston: It's time to move the goalposts on modern football
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David Kynaston: It's time to move the goalposts on modern football

Town centre footfall holding up better than cities, says task force
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Town centre footfall holding up better than cities, says task force

Fears of growing inequality as children head back to school
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Fears of growing inequality as children head back to school

How Norwich vendor Jim Hannah bear mascot connects him with his customers
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How Norwich vendor Jim Hannah bear mascot connects him with his customers

Fact/Fiction: Can honey shift your cold faster than a course of antibiotics?
Miles Cole 1425 honey antibiotics
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Fact/Fiction: Can honey shift your cold faster than a course of antibiotics?

88-year-old cycles from Land's End to John O' Groats to fight homelessness
Housing

88-year-old cycles from Land's End to John O' Groats to fight homelessness

£10m Tenant Hardship Loan Fund coming this autumn to help Scottish renters
Renting Yuki Mok/PA
Housing

£10m Tenant Hardship Loan Fund coming this autumn to help Scottish renters

Tony Adams latest to share his emotional story on More Than My Past podcast
Tony Adams More Than My Past
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Tony Adams latest to share his emotional story on More Than My Past podcast

Campaigners create Home Office installation to protest migrants' treatment
Social Justice

Campaigners create Home Office installation to protest migrants' treatment

US vendors return: 'Staying home was very hard because I'm alone'
Rose Gascon My Pitch International Mark White
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US vendors return: 'Staying home was very hard because I'm alone'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Marcus Rashford says 'time is now' to end child food poverty
Rashford hero food poverty
Social Justice

Marcus Rashford says 'time is now' to end child food poverty

Why Covid-19 means we face homelessness
Housing

Why Covid-19 means we face homelessness

Landlords refuse benefit claimants despite Shelter court win
Housing

Landlords refuse benefit claimants despite Shelter court win

'Food is love': How people joined forces to fight hunger in lockdown
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'Food is love': How people joined forces to fight hunger in lockdown