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Support Big Issue vendors this Christmas with our Winter Support Kit
Big Issue Christmas Campaign

Support Big Issue vendors this Christmas with our Winter Support Kit

Beavers are back in London’s waterways after 400 years away
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Beavers are back in London’s waterways after 400 years away

Migrants may be forced into destitution as UK hikes visa renewal fees amid cost of living
Immigration

Migrants may be forced into destitution as UK hikes visa renewal fees amid cost of living

Neighbours band together to tackle energy bills and show how climate action starts at home
Climate crisis

Neighbours band together to tackle energy bills and show how climate action starts at home

Axed bus routes, congested trains and broken promises: Is Leeds the UK’s worst-connected city?
Transport

Axed bus routes, congested trains and broken promises: Is Leeds the UK’s worst-connected city?

These Right to Roam activists are fighting landlords to open up UK’s green spaces to all
the future of travel

These Right to Roam activists are fighting landlords to open up UK’s green spaces to all

Meet the Brits going without heating this winter as fuel poverty skyrockets: ‘I’m terrified’
Fuel poverty

Meet the Brits going without heating this winter as fuel poverty skyrockets: ‘I’m terrified’

Homelessness is never a lifestyle choice: Big Issue’s reaction to Suella Braverman comments
Homelessness

Homelessness is never a lifestyle choice: Big Issue’s reaction to Suella Braverman comments

‘We’re living in a nightmare’: Iraqi refugee family evicted into homelessness has lost ‘all sense of safety’ in UK
Special report

‘We’re living in a nightmare’: Iraqi refugee family evicted into homelessness has lost ‘all sense of safety’ in UK

Disabled nurse ‘feels guilty being alive’ as her family struggles with devastating cost of living
Cost of living crisis

Disabled nurse ‘feels guilty being alive’ as her family struggles with devastating cost of living

‘Fireworks sound like war’: Ex-RAF member with PTSD warns of bonfire night’s impact on veterans
Veterans

‘Fireworks sound like war’: Ex-RAF member with PTSD warns of bonfire night’s impact on veterans

Care leavers find it much harder to get a job – but any company would be lucky to have us
Employment

Care leavers find it much harder to get a job – but any company would be lucky to have us

Councils plead with Jeremy Hunt for urgent cash boost to keep families off the streets
Homelessness

Councils plead with Jeremy Hunt for urgent cash boost to keep families off the streets

One in 10 councils face effective bankruptcy as cost of placing children in care soars
Local government

One in 10 councils face effective bankruptcy as cost of placing children in care soars

Majority of Brits can’t name a single Black British historical figure. Here’s how we change that
Black History Month

Majority of Brits can’t name a single Black British historical figure. Here’s how we change that

Rough sleeping in London hits record highs as Home Office clears asylum backlog
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping in London hits record highs as Home Office clears asylum backlog

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Mum with human waste dripping down kitchen walls wins gruelling legal battle against landlord
Social housing

Mum with human waste dripping down kitchen walls wins gruelling legal battle against landlord

Tourism must reinvent itself to fight climate change and reach net zero. Here’s how
the future of travel

Tourism must reinvent itself to fight climate change and reach net zero. Here’s how

Drug dealer explains how he turned his life around after realising he was ‘going to end up dead’
Justice system

Drug dealer explains how he turned his life around after realising he was ‘going to end up dead’

Shareholders are pocketing billions in dividends – and it’s making UK’s housing crisis worse
Tom Archer, Ian Cole

Shareholders are pocketing billions in dividends – and it’s making UK’s housing crisis worse