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DWP payment dates in October 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month
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DWP payment dates in October 2025: When you will get your benefits and pensions this month

Here’s everything to know about the benefits and pensions to expect from the DWP in October 2025, including if you could be eligible for more support

Supermarkets have a near monopoly on British food. Is it time for change?
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Supermarkets have a near monopoly on British food. Is it time for change?

Should supermarkets have a near monopoly over grocery sales in Britain? Charities are calling for ‘bold and urgent action’ to fix the food system

Never underestimate the power of pets
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Never underestimate the power of pets

StreetVet has spent nearly a decade providing free vet care for the pets of people experiencing homelessness. For Mick, Debs and Andy, their animals were more than companions – they were lifelines.

Letters: If it was about national pride, the England flags would’ve been flying a long time ago
Letters

Letters: If it was about national pride, the England flags would’ve been flying a long time ago

What is PIP and how do I claim it? Everything you need to know about the DWP disability benefit
Disability benefits

What is PIP and how do I claim it? Everything you need to know about the DWP disability benefit

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Bringing sight to your doorstep: How Specsavers Home Visits are transforming eye care access
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Bringing sight to your doorstep: How Specsavers Home Visits are transforming eye care access

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?
Letters

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?

This snooker club is giving people with physical and learning disabilities their big break
Sport

This snooker club is giving people with physical and learning disabilities their big break

Letters: At least Angela Rayner had the decency to resign – that’s a good thing
Letters

Letters: At least Angela Rayner had the decency to resign – that’s a good thing

Family day out: Why the Citroën ë-C5 Aircross made our Bath adventure unforgettable
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Family day out: Why the Citroën ë-C5 Aircross made our Bath adventure unforgettable

Letters: Don’t weaponise violence against women and girls
Letters

Letters: Don’t weaponise violence against women and girls

Letters: If I had to flee my home I’d hope I wouldn’t end up in an asylum hotel
Letters

Letters: If I had to flee my home I’d hope I wouldn’t end up in an asylum hotel

From solarpunk to the metaverse: The way we think about the future needs to change
Science

From solarpunk to the metaverse: The way we think about the future needs to change

Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: ‘We have reinvented a Victorian problem’
Hygiene poverty

Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: ‘We have reinvented a Victorian problem’

Letters: There are so many stupid and greedy people out there
Letters

Letters: There are so many stupid and greedy people out there

Why so many Gen Z workers are retiring in their 20s
Society

Why so many Gen Z workers are retiring in their 20s

Gladiators star Zack George: ‘We want my son’s short time on this Earth to have a positive effect’
Charity

Gladiators star Zack George: ‘We want my son’s short time on this Earth to have a positive effect’

How a Citroën ë-Berlingo Van is helping Swansea charity deliver connection and kindness
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How a Citroën ë-Berlingo Van is helping Swansea charity deliver connection and kindness

Five key things you need to know about PIP
Disability benefits

Five key things you need to know about PIP

Letters: The far right needs to accept asylum seekers aren’t just going to disappear
Letters

Letters: The far right needs to accept asylum seekers aren’t just going to disappear

The pigs of Orwell’s Animal Farm led the revolution. Eighty years on, the UK’s pigs are in trouble
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The pigs of Orwell’s Animal Farm led the revolution. Eighty years on, the UK’s pigs are in trouble

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How I cured my hypochondria
Health

How I cured my hypochondria

Millions of Brits use Buy Now, Pay Later to shop. Will new rules protect people from the dangers?
Buy Now, Pay Later

Millions of Brits use Buy Now, Pay Later to shop. Will new rules protect people from the dangers?

Letters: It’s anti-migrant ‘protesters’ that make me feel unsafe – not asylum seekers
Letters

Letters: It’s anti-migrant ‘protesters’ that make me feel unsafe – not asylum seekers

How residents in Chatham are pulling their decaying high street out of a crisis
Community

How residents in Chatham are pulling their decaying high street out of a crisis