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Disabled Big Issue vendor Jason has fought 21 years for an accessible home. There are millions like him
Our Vendors

Disabled Big Issue vendor Jason has fought 21 years for an accessible home. There are millions like him

London seller Jason Sallis has been locked in a battle with his landlord Notting Hill Genesis for more than a decade to find a home that is suitable for him and his wheelchair. It’s a familiar tale for disabled people across the country

Tributes paid to much-loved Big Issue vendor after tragic death: ‘He would always help everybody’
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Tributes paid to much-loved Big Issue vendor after tragic death: ‘He would always help everybody’

Much-loved seller Neil Smith died from sepsis in July, triggering an outpouring of grief from the community. Now a vendor who shared his pitch is taking on his dog Honey

Letters: Why are people ready to hand our NHS to Farage and his millionaires?
Letters

Letters: Why are people ready to hand our NHS to Farage and his millionaires?

Our best chance to protect the NHS is to keep the likes of Farage away from power, says a reader

PIP lifeline helps Bristol Big Issue vendor reach cancer treatment
Behind the scenes

PIP lifeline helps Bristol Big Issue vendor reach cancer treatment

A View, From a Bridge is the social media sensation where strangers reveal all on an old, red phone
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A View, From a Bridge is the social media sensation where strangers reveal all on an old, red phone

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Letters: Landlords should be made illegal to fix the housing market
Letters

Letters: Landlords should be made illegal to fix the housing market

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption
Letters

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption

Meet the ex-Big Issue vendor who went from homelessness to giving Prince William a tour of Aberdeen
Homelessness

Meet the ex-Big Issue vendor who went from homelessness to giving Prince William a tour of Aberdeen

Meet the new Big Issue ambassadors helping to end poverty once and for all: ‘We’re in a fight’
Big Issue Ambassadors

Meet the new Big Issue ambassadors helping to end poverty once and for all: ‘We’re in a fight’

Inside the Big Issue: Michael Sheen’s great debt battle
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Michael Sheen’s great debt battle

Inside the Big Issue: 40 years on from the miners’ strike
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: 40 years on from the miners’ strike

Aberdeen vendor shares fears over M&S closure with local MP: “She’s in our corner”
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Aberdeen vendor shares fears over M&S closure with local MP: “She’s in our corner”

It’s Random Acts of Kindness Day. For this Big Issue vendor, kindness is always around him
Random Acts of Kindness

It’s Random Acts of Kindness Day. For this Big Issue vendor, kindness is always around him

Letters: We’re all ‘economically active’ whether working or not – even my dog contributes to GDP
Letters

Letters: We’re all ‘economically active’ whether working or not – even my dog contributes to GDP

Inside the Big Issue: Meet Dwayne Fields, the new UK Chief Scout on a mission
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Meet Dwayne Fields, the new UK Chief Scout on a mission

‘It’s surreal’: Big Issue vendor sees his own portrait at powerful homelessness exhibition
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‘It’s surreal’: Big Issue vendor sees his own portrait at powerful homelessness exhibition

As misinformation thrives, you can trust in Big Issue
Paul McNamee

As misinformation thrives, you can trust in Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Trust issues
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Trust issues

‘I’m going to miss him’: Calls for plaque in memory to ‘gentle’ Big Issue vendor who died aged 57
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‘I’m going to miss him’: Calls for plaque in memory to ‘gentle’ Big Issue vendor who died aged 57

Comedian Dom Joly meets Big Issue vendor André to lift the lid on homelessness – and his new novel
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Comedian Dom Joly meets Big Issue vendor André to lift the lid on homelessness – and his new novel

Letters: I’m a disabled woman, aged 60. The DWP made me feel like a poor second-class citizen
Letters

Letters: I’m a disabled woman, aged 60. The DWP made me feel like a poor second-class citizen

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Inside the Big Issue: Grab life by the horns
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Grab life by the horns

Inside the Big Issue: Delivering hope. Merry Christmas
Inside Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Delivering hope. Merry Christmas

Much-loved Big Issue vendor given wooden hut at Christmas market: ‘He’s part of the family’
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Much-loved Big Issue vendor given wooden hut at Christmas market: ‘He’s part of the family’

The remarkable story of how a stray puppy survived a Macedonian ‘kill shelter’ to find a loving home
Dogs of Big Issue

The remarkable story of how a stray puppy survived a Macedonian ‘kill shelter’ to find a loving home