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Carib Eats: Meet the grassroots group helping the needy with Caribbean food and community
Cost of living crisis

Carib Eats: Meet the grassroots group helping the needy with Caribbean food and community

DWP is ‘penalising’ terminally ill people for ‘not dying fast enough’, campaigner warns
Benefits

DWP is ‘penalising’ terminally ill people for ‘not dying fast enough’, campaigner warns

How tiny music venue The Pit at Newstead revived a former mining community: ‘It’s a lifeline’
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How tiny music venue The Pit at Newstead revived a former mining community: ‘It’s a lifeline’

FoodCycle: The community meal where refugees, ex-prisoners and old friends break bread together
Cost of living crisis

FoodCycle: The community meal where refugees, ex-prisoners and old friends break bread together

I’ve been homeless in this city. Now I’m helping tourists discover its hidden secrets
Homelessness

I’ve been homeless in this city. Now I’m helping tourists discover its hidden secrets

Folk music venue fights for survival after ‘unfair’ £99k bill from billionaire landlords
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Folk music venue fights for survival after ‘unfair’ £99k bill from billionaire landlords

‘Poverty is killing children’: How homeless families are fighting to survive this Christmas
Cost of living crisis

‘Poverty is killing children’: How homeless families are fighting to survive this Christmas

Incredible story of how a Big Issue vendor found himself at heart of Occupy protests
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Incredible story of how a Big Issue vendor found himself at heart of Occupy protests

‘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’

Shock £300k bill from bankrupt council threatens Woking’s only grassroots music venue
Venue Watch

Shock £300k bill from bankrupt council threatens Woking’s only grassroots music venue

‘We haven’t done enough’: Why arenas need to step up and support grassroots music venues
Venue Watch

‘We haven’t done enough’: Why arenas need to step up and support grassroots music venues

Ex-hostage Sir Terry Waite on Hamas victims and how captivity shaped his empathy for homeless people
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Ex-hostage Sir Terry Waite on Hamas victims and how captivity shaped his empathy for homeless people

Building careers from U2 to Self Esteem, The Horn is a haven for ‘people a little bit outside normal’
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Building careers from U2 to Self Esteem, The Horn is a haven for ‘people a little bit outside normal’

Food bank says people are turning to sex work and taking out dangerous loans due to cost of living
Cost of living crisis

Food bank says people are turning to sex work and taking out dangerous loans due to 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

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

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Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a ‘failure’ due to benefits not covering essentials
Cost of living crisis

Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a ‘failure’ due to benefits not covering essentials

Young woman says she ‘unravelled’ when cost of living meant she couldn’t keep herself clean
Cost of living crisis

Young woman says she ‘unravelled’ when cost of living meant she couldn’t keep herself clean

From prison to cakes: The bakery changing the lives of London’s most disadvantaged women
Barriers to work

From prison to cakes: The bakery changing the lives of London’s most disadvantaged women

Adoptees share the ‘extreme emotional challenge’ of meeting birth parents decades after adoption
Adoption

Adoptees share the ‘extreme emotional challenge’ of meeting birth parents decades after adoption