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What impact does vaping have on children and young people?
Vaping

What impact does vaping have on children and young people?

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money
Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness Day

11 ways to spread kindness without spending money

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits
dwp
Benefits

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits

Why I'm worrying about everything
Sam Delaney

Why I'm worrying about everything

'I had to pay £75 for a chopping board': This is how much extra being disabled costs me
A woman in a wheelchair cutting food on a kitchen counter
Philippa Willitts

'I had to pay £75 for a chopping board': This is how much extra being disabled costs me

This bizarre tale of a snail-obsessed misfit might be the unlikely hit of the Oscars
Film

This bizarre tale of a snail-obsessed misfit might be the unlikely hit of the Oscars

Brits feel just as poor and miserable as they did last year. When will things get better?
Britain

Brits feel just as poor and miserable as they did last year. When will things get better?

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen
Levi Roots cuts the ribbon to launch the INI Food and Wellbeing Centre. To his right is Sistah Stella Headley and to his left is Jean-Michel Grand, the chief executive of Action Against Hunger UK.
Food poverty

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen

This ice sculpture makes a powerful point about pensioners after winter fuel payment cut
Pensioner Rob Trewhella stands next to an ice sculpture in his image as a protest to cuts to winter fuel payments
Winter fuel payment

This ice sculpture makes a powerful point about pensioners after winter fuel payment cut

Healthy foods 'more than twice as expensive' as unhealthy foods, report finds: 'We're in a bad place'
Photo shows several people standing with easels as part of The Food Foundation's Broken Plate exhibition
Food

Healthy foods 'more than twice as expensive' as unhealthy foods, report finds: 'We're in a bad place'

Man fighting incurable cancer has his wheelchair stolen: 'It's very disappointing'
Cancer

Man fighting incurable cancer has his wheelchair stolen: 'It's very disappointing'

Children are poor because their mothers are poor. But is Labour serious about tackling it?
Starmer and Phillipson at a school
Dr Sara Reis

Children are poor because their mothers are poor. But is Labour serious about tackling it?

Liz Kendall blasted for 'fuelling fear' after saying benefits claimants are 'taking the mickey'
DWP minister Liz Kendall
Benefits

Liz Kendall blasted for 'fuelling fear' after saying benefits claimants are 'taking the mickey'

Inside the plan to give free cash to homeless people in Manchester: 'It's time to try something new'
Andy Burnham and Rachel Reeves at Manchester Victoria Station
Universal basic income

Inside the plan to give free cash to homeless people in Manchester: 'It's time to try something new'

DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts: 'What a failure'
Disability benefits

DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts: 'What a failure'

Uncertainty around disability benefit cuts is triggering bipolar symptoms, experts warn
Simon Kitchen

Uncertainty around disability benefit cuts is triggering bipolar symptoms, experts warn

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Dozens use UK's first drugs consumption room in opening weeks – but 'barriers' still remain
a handful of syringed in packets on top of a blue face covering
Drugs

Dozens use UK's first drugs consumption room in opening weeks – but 'barriers' still remain

Housing developers are raking in cash while young people sleep in parks – it has to stop
Jacob

Housing developers are raking in cash while young people sleep in parks – it has to stop

'We get sick, Meta get rich': Why the 'guinea pig generation' wants Labour to tax social media giants
Social Media

'We get sick, Meta get rich': Why the 'guinea pig generation' wants Labour to tax social media giants

Leukaemia and other blood cancer treatments are a postcode lottery in the UK – this has to change
Person holding somebody's hand in hospital
Fiona Hazell

Leukaemia and other blood cancer treatments are a postcode lottery in the UK – this has to change

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