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The unusual story of how one Lancashire venue rose like a phoenix: ‘It’s a place for everybody’
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The unusual story of how one Lancashire venue rose like a phoenix: ‘It’s a place for everybody’

‘We’re futureproofing the potato’: How climate change is causing turmoil for your Christmas dinner
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‘We’re futureproofing the potato’: How climate change is causing turmoil for your Christmas dinner

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
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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

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

Refugee wonders if it would be better to ‘stay in Yemen and die’ than go through UK asylum system
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Refugee wonders if it would be better to ‘stay in Yemen and die’ than go through UK asylum system

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

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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

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