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A penny off pints and higher wages: What Rachel Reeves’ budget means for you and your bank account
Autumn budget

A penny off pints and higher wages: What Rachel Reeves’ budget means for you and your bank account

‘Gen Z are turning to culture instead of alcohol’: Is the party holiday officially over?  
Sustainable travel

‘Gen Z are turning to culture instead of alcohol’: Is the party holiday officially over?  

‘This will be costly’: Fears pensioners may miss out on DWP winter support over pension credit backlog
Winter fuel payment

‘This will be costly’: Fears pensioners may miss out on DWP winter support over pension credit backlog

Special needs children forced out of school by ‘crumbling’ system, figures show
Education

Special needs children forced out of school by ‘crumbling’ system, figures show

Pushing mentally ill people from their hospital beds and into offices will only make things worse
Dr Claire Ashley

Pushing mentally ill people from their hospital beds and into offices will only make things worse

Nitazenes: Harm reduction advice to help keep safe
Drugs

Nitazenes: Harm reduction advice to help keep safe

Meet the only scientist who knows just how bad the UK’s drug deaths crisis truly is
Drugs

Meet the only scientist who knows just how bad the UK’s drug deaths crisis truly is

Poverty has become everyday. It’s time to give our children some hope
Paul McNamee

Poverty has become everyday. It’s time to give our children some hope

Health inequality starts in childhood. When will the national debate reflect that?
Rachael McKeown

Health inequality starts in childhood. When will the national debate reflect that?

Universal credit top up of just £25 per week would ‘benefit whole of society’, study finds
Universal credit

Universal credit top up of just £25 per week would ‘benefit whole of society’, study finds

Children in poverty are missing out on memories in the school holidays. We want to change that
Emma Revie and Nick Merriman

Children in poverty are missing out on memories in the school holidays. We want to change that

I composed a piece of music made from the dying beats of my father’s heart
Music

I composed a piece of music made from the dying beats of my father’s heart

Labour can stop more vulnerable people dying from drugs like nitazenes – if it wants. Here’s how
Luke O'Neil

Labour can stop more vulnerable people dying from drugs like nitazenes – if it wants. Here’s how

‘We’re the forgotten ones’: Labour budget must not ignore ‘broken’ social care system, families say
Social care

‘We’re the forgotten ones’: Labour budget must not ignore ‘broken’ social care system, families say

MPs on all sides call for action on nitazenes after Big Issue exposes Britain’s drug deaths crisis
Nitazenes

MPs on all sides call for action on nitazenes after Big Issue exposes Britain’s drug deaths crisis

Drug deaths at highest level since records began – and experts say it’s going to get worse
Drugs

Drug deaths at highest level since records began – and experts say it’s going to get worse

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So-called ‘deaths of despair’ are rising in the UK. Labour must act on this silent epidemic
James Rose

So-called ‘deaths of despair’ are rising in the UK. Labour must act on this silent epidemic

‘We’re stepping in to help kids eat’: Schools forced to dip into their own budgets to feed pupils
Child poverty

‘We’re stepping in to help kids eat’: Schools forced to dip into their own budgets to feed pupils

Children across the UK are living in ‘Dickensian conditions’ due to sky-high energy bills
Energy bills

Children across the UK are living in ‘Dickensian conditions’ due to sky-high energy bills

‘We’re not diesel monsters’: Meet the London cabbies going electric to help fight climate change
Climate change

‘We’re not diesel monsters’: Meet the London cabbies going electric to help fight climate change