Lottie Elton, Author at Big Issue

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Lottie Elton

Lottie Elton is a staff reporter at the Big Issue. She previously worked at Euronews, and as a health and state politics reporter at The West Australian Newspaper. In this role, she won “Best New Journalist - Runner Up” in 2021.

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Climate change

Adventurer Aldo Kane on how climate change has ravaged the natural world – and who’s to blame

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Mental health

NHS spending on private mental health beds soars to £1.4bn in five years: ‘Terrible things are happening’

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Environment

Jayda G went from environmental toxicology to the Grammys. Now she’s creating ‘science you can dance to’

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Employment

‘An act of desperation’: GPs vote for industrial action for the first time in 60 years

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Sick leave

Employees working through sickness is costing UK businesses billions, think tank says

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Fossil fuels

Fossil fuel giant BP accused of ‘profiting off misery’ after announcing staggering earnings

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NHS

GPs threaten to bring ‘NHS to a standstill’ with industrial action as junior doctors reach pay deal

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Gambling

I took out loans and maxed out credit cards to fund my gambling addiction. I ended up homeless

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Paris 2024 Olympics

Olympics 2024: Fury as homelessness ‘swept under the rug’ and rough sleepers removed from Paris

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Reading

Half of UK adults don’t read for pleasure

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Shoplifting

Labour warned that crackdown on shoplifters risks ‘criminalising’ poverty: ‘Some are out of options’

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Workers' rights