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Dear students: Here's how to get smart about money and save yourself stress later on
Student Life 2024

Dear students: Here's how to get smart about money and save yourself stress later on

Student Life 2024: Get your free student guide in this week's Big Issue
Student Life 2024

Student Life 2024: Get your free student guide in this week's Big Issue

Letters: There's no way I'll claim pension credit – I refuse to be insulted by benefit assessors
Letters

Letters: There's no way I'll claim pension credit – I refuse to be insulted by benefit assessors

These interest-free loans have a twist: Pay off on time and you might get money back
Iceland Food Club
Loans

These interest-free loans have a twist: Pay off on time and you might get money back

Starmer wants a 'dramatic reimagining' of the NHS. What does that mean for you?
a mural of a man pulling back a shirt to reveal a
NHS

Starmer wants a 'dramatic reimagining' of the NHS. What does that mean for you?

State pension set to rise by £460 next year – but will it make up for winter fuel payment cut?
Stock image of two elderly people sitting on a sofa
State pensions

State pension set to rise by £460 next year – but will it make up for winter fuel payment cut?

Martin Lewis blasts councils putting vulnerable people at risk with aggressive debt collection
Stock image of cash and coins
Debt

Martin Lewis blasts councils putting vulnerable people at risk with aggressive debt collection

Letters: There's hope in the wonderful way people came together after the riots
Letters

Letters: There's hope in the wonderful way people came together after the riots

Designer and activist Katharine Hamnett on fast fashion, the planet and photobombing Thatcher
katherine hamnett
Second hand September

Designer and activist Katharine Hamnett on fast fashion, the planet and photobombing Thatcher

'This will only intensify': Millions of pensioners at risk of serious illness due to UK heatwaves
older man in heatwave temperatures
Heatwave

'This will only intensify': Millions of pensioners at risk of serious illness due to UK heatwaves

Letters: Water bosses should be made to do Cersei's 'walk of shame' from Game of Thrones
Letters

Letters: Water bosses should be made to do Cersei's 'walk of shame' from Game of Thrones

I have worn second hand clothes my whole life. I don’t know why anyone would shop new
lesley wearing her second hand finds
Second hand September

I have worn second hand clothes my whole life. I don’t know why anyone would shop new

Scam victims will get guaranteed refunds from banks under new scheme – but it comes with a warning
a woman using her phone on a train platform
Fraud

Scam victims will get guaranteed refunds from banks under new scheme – but it comes with a warning

Disabled people's health is 'shockingly neglected' in UK, research finds as Paralympics begins
disabled people sport
Disability rights

Disabled people's health is 'shockingly neglected' in UK, research finds as Paralympics begins

'We're going to war': Meet the wheelchair rugby stars 'normalising disability' at the Paralympics
Paralympics

'We're going to war': Meet the wheelchair rugby stars 'normalising disability' at the Paralympics

Letters: I panic every time I hear from the DWP. It tells you all you need to know about the system
Letters

Letters: I panic every time I hear from the DWP. It tells you all you need to know about the system

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Paralympics host Ed Jackson: 'It puts a smile on my face just to be able to walk down the stairs'
Ed Jackson
Letter To My Younger Self

Paralympics host Ed Jackson: 'It puts a smile on my face just to be able to walk down the stairs'

'Nobody should feel on their own': How pubs are stepping up to tackle the UK's loneliness epidemic
Community

'Nobody should feel on their own': How pubs are stepping up to tackle the UK's loneliness epidemic

Bloomsbury Football: How a grassroots charity is using the power of football to build hope
Bloomsbury Football kids
Football

Bloomsbury Football: How a grassroots charity is using the power of football to build hope

Letters: Old age is something to celebrate – not something to complain about
The Dunn family with Norwich Big Issue vendor Simon Gravell
Letters

Letters: Old age is something to celebrate – not something to complain about

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