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Pret A Manger is offering homeless people a roof and a job
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Pret A Manger is offering homeless people a roof and a job

Global suicide rates are down
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Global suicide rates are down

Energy prices are rising by £117 after watchdog increases price cap
Environment

Energy prices are rising by £117 after watchdog increases price cap

Uri Geller tells The Big Issue Brexit 'will be positive' for the UK
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Uri Geller tells The Big Issue Brexit 'will be positive' for the UK

Struggling Northamptonshire council is raising council tax by five per cent
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Struggling Northamptonshire council is raising council tax by five per cent

Why we need to rip up the textbooks on private schools
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Why we need to rip up the textbooks on private schools

Truro M&S store manager takes on Big Issue sell-off challenge
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Truro M&S store manager takes on Big Issue sell-off challenge

Hostile teaching on EU migrants is gravely failing British schoolchildren
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Hostile teaching on EU migrants is gravely failing British schoolchildren

Social workers are using VR to experience the lives of children in care
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Social workers are using VR to experience the lives of children in care

Heartbreaking shoe display lays bare child suicide figures
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Heartbreaking shoe display lays bare child suicide figures

Half of Universal Credit claimants are struggling to pay housing needs
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Half of Universal Credit claimants are struggling to pay housing needs

Liam Byrne is the latest MP to try his hand at selling The Big Issue
Liam Byrne sell-off
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Liam Byrne is the latest MP to try his hand at selling The Big Issue

Children who sleep less 'struggle more with worries'
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Children who sleep less 'struggle more with worries'

Employers urged to do more as 600 people a day quit work for caring duties
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Employers urged to do more as 600 people a day quit work for caring duties

A Devon school has turned the great outdoors into a classroom
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A Devon school has turned the great outdoors into a classroom

A lack of public transport is keeping Britain's poorest away from nature
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A lack of public transport is keeping Britain's poorest away from nature

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Changemakers: Julia Salasky changed the face of justice with crowdfunding
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Changemakers: Julia Salasky changed the face of justice with crowdfunding

Hero Big Issue vendor helps police dispense sweet justice after break-in
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Hero Big Issue vendor helps police dispense sweet justice after break-in

Vendor City Guide: Milan
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Vendor City Guide: Milan

Paul McNamee: To improve child literacy, libraries are a shoo-in
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Paul McNamee: To improve child literacy, libraries are a shoo-in

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