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Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track?
Railways

Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track?

Why we need new train stations – and how they could improve issues from the housing crisis to poor health

The challenge of counting hidden homelessness in Britain
Hidden homelessness

The challenge of counting hidden homelessness in Britain

Hidden homelessness is unseen, hard to define and even more difficult to measure

This charity uses McDonald’s to fight hidden homelessness
Hidden homelessness

This charity uses McDonald’s to fight hidden homelessness

Prince William visited Spiral Skills to see how the Lambeth project can help his Homewards programme tackle homelessness. The people behind the charity told Big Issue how they reach those at risk

Bear Grylls puts focus on hidden homelessness in new short film: ‘We can break the stigma’
Homelessness

Bear Grylls puts focus on hidden homelessness in new short film: ‘We can break the stigma’

Labour pledges homelessness cash boost to help kids in temporary accommodation ahead of winter
Homelessness

Labour pledges homelessness cash boost to help kids in temporary accommodation ahead of winter

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One mum’s months-long ordeal to find out how her son died in a homeless hostel: ‘I need answers’
Homelessness

One mum’s months-long ordeal to find out how her son died in a homeless hostel: ‘I need answers’

DWP job advisers will soon be in GP surgeries and mental health services
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP job advisers will soon be in GP surgeries and mental health services

More than £4bn in benefits will go unclaimed in London this year: ‘Too many people miss out’
Benefits

More than £4bn in benefits will go unclaimed in London this year: ‘Too many people miss out’

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie: ‘It was hard to get artists to take part in Gig for Gaza’
Music

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie: ‘It was hard to get artists to take part in Gig for Gaza’

The UK is not doing well. Here’s how the Marmot Principles could help Starmer turn things around
Marmot Places

The UK is not doing well. Here’s how the Marmot Principles could help Starmer turn things around

Here’s how projects driven by the eight Marmot principles are transforming Britain
Marmot thinking

Here’s how projects driven by the eight Marmot principles are transforming Britain

Four people died while homeless every day in the UK last year: ‘People continue to be failed’
Homelessness

Four people died while homeless every day in the UK last year: ‘People continue to be failed’

Get rich and die trying: Typical Brit must save entire lifetime of earnings to become wealthy
Wealth

Get rich and die trying: Typical Brit must save entire lifetime of earnings to become wealthy

What does Keir Starmer’s personality type tell us about him?
Psychology

What does Keir Starmer’s personality type tell us about him?

Disabled man may be forced to close his business after DWP slashed his Access to Work support
Access to work

Disabled man may be forced to close his business after DWP slashed his Access to Work support

The DWP is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of disabled people. Here’s how to overhaul it
Benefits

The DWP is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of disabled people. Here’s how to overhaul it

Here’s when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025
Christmas

Here’s when people will get their benefits from the DWP over Christmas in 2025

There’s no trust left in the world. How can we get it back?
Trust

There’s no trust left in the world. How can we get it back?

How did net zero get so politically toxic?
Net Zero

How did net zero get so politically toxic?

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025
Homelessness

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025

Kinship carers are sleeping on sofas and floors to keep children out of care, study finds
Care system

Kinship carers are sleeping on sofas and floors to keep children out of care, study finds

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Hidden crisis of fires ripping through Gypsy and Traveller sites is ‘a fatal tragedy waiting to happen’
Gypsies and Travellers

Hidden crisis of fires ripping through Gypsy and Traveller sites is ‘a fatal tragedy waiting to happen’

Energy bill rise made me feel sick. I’d like Keir Starmer to try living in my bungalow when it’s cold
Energy bills

Energy bill rise made me feel sick. I’d like Keir Starmer to try living in my bungalow when it’s cold

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear
Benefits

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear

Rent controls coming to Scotland as Holyrood passes ‘ground-breaking’ housing bill
Housing

Rent controls coming to Scotland as Holyrood passes ‘ground-breaking’ housing bill