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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announces raise in local housing allowance for first time in three years
Autumn Statement

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announces raise in local housing allowance for first time in three years

Teacher forced to sleep rough at Heathrow Airport calls on government to ban no-fault evictions
End Housing Insecurity Now

Teacher forced to sleep rough at Heathrow Airport calls on government to ban no-fault evictions

Autumn Statement 2023: What could be in it and how it will affect your bank balance?
Autumn Statement

Autumn Statement 2023: What could be in it and how it will affect your bank balance?

How many empty homes are there in the UK?
Housing

How many empty homes are there in the UK?

Families left with ‘nothing’ as cost of living payments fail to cover essentials: ‘My bank account is empty’
Cost of living crisis

Families left with ‘nothing’ as cost of living payments fail to cover essentials: ‘My bank account is empty’

How lucrative North Sea oil became the front line of battle for the climate
Climate crisis

How lucrative North Sea oil became the front line of battle for the climate

How a grassroots women’s network is fighting climate change – one dodgy investment at a time
Climate crisis

How a grassroots women’s network is fighting climate change – one dodgy investment at a time

‘I urinated myself in the opticians’: UK’s public toilet crisis makes disabled people feel like ‘prisoners’
Public toilets

‘I urinated myself in the opticians’: UK’s public toilet crisis makes disabled people feel like ‘prisoners’

Sadiq Khan gives councils new powers to buy 10,000 homes and take on social housing crisis
Housing crisis

Sadiq Khan gives councils new powers to buy 10,000 homes and take on social housing crisis

Benefits claimants to lose free NHS prescriptions if they refuse work: ‘We will take your benefits away’
Benefits

Benefits claimants to lose free NHS prescriptions if they refuse work: ‘We will take your benefits away’

Thousands of 16 and 17-year-old children were homeless in England last year – and ‘treated like adults’
Homelessness

Thousands of 16 and 17-year-old children were homeless in England last year – and ‘treated like adults’

‘People’s tents are being taken away’: Charities condemn new powers to criminalise ‘nuisance rough sleeping’
Rough sleeping

‘People’s tents are being taken away’: Charities condemn new powers to criminalise ‘nuisance rough sleeping’

Rwanda judgement means asylum seekers can ‘sleep without fear’, says charity behind court victory
Immigration

Rwanda judgement means asylum seekers can ‘sleep without fear’, says charity behind court victory

Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release has trebled in one year
Rough sleeping

Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release has trebled in one year

Government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, Supreme Court finds
Immigration

Government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, Supreme Court finds

Nobody knows what Esther McVey’s new ‘anti-woke’ cabinet job means – except for even more culture wars
Culture wars

Nobody knows what Esther McVey’s new ‘anti-woke’ cabinet job means – except for even more culture wars

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Food banks ask people to ‘pray for them’ ahead of worst winter on record: ‘Our shelves are empty’
Cost of living crisis

Food banks ask people to ‘pray for them’ ahead of worst winter on record: ‘Our shelves are empty’

Thames Water forced to pay back millions to customers over pollution – but campaigners say it doesn’t go far enough
Environment

Thames Water forced to pay back millions to customers over pollution – but campaigners say it doesn’t go far enough

‘The King slipped me a tenner’: King Charles buys copy of Big Issue with his portrait on the cover
King Charles III

‘The King slipped me a tenner’: King Charles buys copy of Big Issue with his portrait on the cover

Map shows where you can find a warm bank near you this winter
Cost of living crisis

Map shows where you can find a warm bank near you this winter