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” for a 2021 investigation into police misconduct.

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Youth centres

Social media and closure of youth ‘safe spaces’ could lead to surge in violent crime, research warns

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Theatre

The Wizard of Booze: How a pantomime is helping people overcoming addiction this Christmas

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Climate change

‘Death certificate’: Why COP28 climate summit is hanging by a thread over fossil fuel deadlock

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Strikes

Union leaders vow to resist Tories’ ‘unworkable and undemocratic’ new anti-strike laws

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Literature

‘A man of integrity’: Tributes pour in after writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah dies aged 65

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Big Issue Recruit

I always loved translating for my family. Big Issue Recruit helped me land my ‘dream job’

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Cost of living crisis

Disabled people are cancelling Christmas because they can’t afford it: ‘We can’t wait another winter’

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Sewage pollution

‘Clean up the filth!’: Labour wants to block bonuses for water firm bosses over sewage dumping

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Mental health

There’s a mental health crisis in NHS, says writer and comedian Adam Kay: ‘So little is being done’

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Homelessness

Homeless man asks to be sent to jail for a bed and a meal. It happens more often than you’d think

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Abortion

‘This Victorian-era law isn’t fit for purpose’: Is abortion finally going to be decriminalised?

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Music