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Food banks face 'tsunami of need' as record number of people seek help
Packages of food are lined along shelves and on the floor in a food bank
Food banks

Food banks face 'tsunami of need' as record number of people seek help

Families will be given 'fruit and veg prescriptions' to tackle chronic disease and food poverty
fruit and veg prescriptions
Social Justice

Families will be given 'fruit and veg prescriptions' to tackle chronic disease and food poverty

Zayn Malik calls on Rishi Sunak to offer free school meals to all children in poverty
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Free school meals

Zayn Malik calls on Rishi Sunak to offer free school meals to all children in poverty

How to prepare for blackouts in the UK this winter
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Energy crisis

How to prepare for blackouts in the UK this winter

Hundreds of thousands of people are missing out on the government's £400 energy rebate
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Energy bills

Hundreds of thousands of people are missing out on the government's £400 energy rebate

Here's what people in Dover really think about UK immigration
Immigration

Here's what people in Dover really think about UK immigration

What is happening at the Manston migrant centre?
Manston migrant centre
Immigration

What is happening at the Manston migrant centre?

Big Issue Group launches campaign demanding long-term solutions to protect future generations and break the cycle of poverty
Big Futures
Big Futures

Big Issue Group launches campaign demanding long-term solutions to protect future generations and break the cycle of poverty

'I begged food bank workers for body wash for my children': The bleak reality of hygiene poverty in the UK
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Cost of living crisis

'I begged food bank workers for body wash for my children': The bleak reality of hygiene poverty in the UK

Can you live off £1 a day? We asked experts about the TikTok trend
TikTok £1 a day challenges
Cost of living crisis

Can you live off £1 a day? We asked experts about the TikTok trend

Students in east London will be paid to go to school as mayor brings back EMA amid cost of living crisis
Students in a classroom
Social Justice

Students in east London will be paid to go to school as mayor brings back EMA amid cost of living crisis

How graffiti artist Opake overcame addiction and homelessness and is now changing lives
Opake
Art

How graffiti artist Opake overcame addiction and homelessness and is now changing lives

Food banks are being forced to cut staple items because of soaring grocery costs
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Food banks

Food banks are being forced to cut staple items because of soaring grocery costs

Do the TikTok plant pot candle heaters work? We asked a thermodynamics expert
plant pot candle heater
Energy bills

Do the TikTok plant pot candle heaters work? We asked a thermodynamics expert

Children are 'eating rubbers and stealing food' at school because they are hungry
Child in class/ Hungry in school
Cost of living crisis

Children are 'eating rubbers and stealing food' at school because they are hungry

Food banks warn Liz Truss they're at 'breaking point' in open letter delivered to Downing Street
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Food banks

Food banks warn Liz Truss they're at 'breaking point' in open letter delivered to Downing Street

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Jeremy Hunt has massively scaled back Liz Truss's energy bills support
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Energy bills

Jeremy Hunt has massively scaled back Liz Truss's energy bills support

Diary of a food bank manager: Community initiatives are just plugging gaps in the system
Diary of a food bank manager

Diary of a food bank manager: Community initiatives are just plugging gaps in the system

The government promised to help with the cost of living. So how far is the household support fund going?
Liz Truss/ Household support fund
Cost of living crisis

The government promised to help with the cost of living. So how far is the household support fund going?

How one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK is tackling the cost of living crisis
Barking and Dagenham
Cost of living crisis

How one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK is tackling the cost of living crisis

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