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The number of people sleeping rough in London has surged 20% in just a year
rough sleeping in London
Rough sleeping

The number of people sleeping rough in London has surged 20% in just a year

Big Issue vendor Dave Martin reunited with Prince William as royal launches plan to end homelessness
Big Issue vendor Dave Martin and Prince William
Our vendors

Big Issue vendor Dave Martin reunited with Prince William as royal launches plan to end homelessness

George Michael's incredible generosity went far beyond Band Aid
George Michael onstage in 2011
George Michael

George Michael's incredible generosity went far beyond Band Aid

Prince William launches five-year Homewards project to end homelessness
Prince William launches Homewards project to end homelessness
Homelessness

Prince William launches five-year Homewards project to end homelessness

George Michael’s death left ‘a void’ says Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley
Wham! in 1986: George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley
pop

George Michael’s death left ‘a void’ says Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley

These high street shops have been caught paying below minimum wage
Minimum wage

These high street shops have been caught paying below minimum wage

Peter Crouch: 'It felt like the whole world was ridiculing me'
Peter Crouch
documentary

Peter Crouch: 'It felt like the whole world was ridiculing me'

Here’s why British LGBT Awards has dropped ties with fossil fuel giants Shell and BP 
pride flags being waved at a Pride celebration
Environment

Here’s why British LGBT Awards has dropped ties with fossil fuel giants Shell and BP 

Gary Lineker says government could learn from Michael Eavis’s Glastonbury social housing project
Gary Lineker joins Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis and family to mark the social homes project
Social housing

Gary Lineker says government could learn from Michael Eavis’s Glastonbury social housing project

Trust is vital for the renaissance of news
Paul McNamee

Trust is vital for the renaissance of news

Thousands march for abortion reform on Saturday following jail sentence for mother
A protester holds a 'My body, my choice' placard.
Activism

Thousands march for abortion reform on Saturday following jail sentence for mother

Prince William opens London housing project offering cut-price rents to youngsters facing homelessness
Prince William visiting Centrepoint's Reuben House
Homelessness

Prince William opens London housing project offering cut-price rents to youngsters facing homelessness

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends'
Chi-chi Nwanoku
Music

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends'

Protect babies and children from malnutrition in cost of living crisis, government urged
Happy infant baby boy spoon eats itself;
child poverty

Protect babies and children from malnutrition in cost of living crisis, government urged

Big Issue vendors need your help in the heatwave
Big Issue vendor Ian Duff on selling the magazine in a heatwave
Our vendors

Big Issue vendors need your help in the heatwave

Trade unions call for law on maximum working temperature as British workers swelter in heatwave
Heatwave

Trade unions call for law on maximum working temperature as British workers swelter in heatwave

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Exclusive: UN slaps down Tory bid to criminalise ‘legitimate and important’ slow walking protests
Just Stop Oil
Activism

Exclusive: UN slaps down Tory bid to criminalise ‘legitimate and important’ slow walking protests

Metallica give UK homeless charity £40,000 grant after headlining Download Festival
Homelessness

Metallica give UK homeless charity £40,000 grant after headlining Download Festival

Up to 250,000 ‘forgotten’ unpaid young adult carers facing homelessness
young adult carers facing homelessness
Carers

Up to 250,000 ‘forgotten’ unpaid young adult carers facing homelessness

'Damaging' housing benefits are leaving low-income renters with nowhere to rent in England
DWP local housing allowance housing benefits are not enough for renters in England
RENTING

'Damaging' housing benefits are leaving low-income renters with nowhere to rent in England

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