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Blind NHS psychologist fears losing job after DWP slashed her Access to Work support: 'I was sobbing'
Access to work

Blind NHS psychologist fears losing job after DWP slashed her Access to Work support: 'I was sobbing'

Cuts to DWP Access to Work support could force a visually impaired clinical psychologist out of her NHS role
Farage puts pints over poverty with plan to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in a pub
Politics

Farage puts pints over poverty with plan to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap

Stormzy backs bid to get adults into books: 'Reading really is a superpower'
Stormzy
Reading

Stormzy backs bid to get adults into books: 'Reading really is a superpower'

Disabled people appointed to co-produce Timms review of PIP: 'This opportunity cannot be wasted'
Disability benefits

Disabled people appointed to co-produce Timms review of PIP: 'This opportunity cannot be wasted'

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: 'I ain't going to surrender to Elon Musk'
Politics

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: 'I ain't going to surrender to Elon Musk'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Drag Race winner Tia Kofi: 'I'm a member of the Green Party. I have cats. I'm invested in nature'
Drag star Tia Kofi in green gloves
LGBTQ+

Drag Race winner Tia Kofi: 'I'm a member of the Green Party. I have cats. I'm invested in nature'

Woman hospitalised after living with mould sets up training academy to help fix horror homes
Damp and mould campaigner Lisa Malyon with her daughter and son
Damp and mould

Woman hospitalised after living with mould sets up training academy to help fix horror homes

Rough sleeping in London hits new record high – showing 'normalised emergency' on capital's streets
a man sleeping rough on the street
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping in London hits new record high – showing 'normalised emergency' on capital's streets

Can we build enough reservoirs to escape the jaws of death?
Water

Can we build enough reservoirs to escape the jaws of death?

Water bills are going up – again. Will they merely 'prop up a crumbling system?'
water bills

Water bills are going up – again. Will they merely 'prop up a crumbling system?'

The truth behind the 15-minute cities controversy in Oxford, explained
Oxford street
15-minute cities

The truth behind the 15-minute cities controversy in Oxford, explained

I waded through a river of raw sewage to meet the man trying to save London's waterways
Water

I waded through a river of raw sewage to meet the man trying to save London's waterways

'It's outrageous': Renters face decade-long wait for new decent homes standard
a UK street with a blue sky
Renting

'It's outrageous': Renters face decade-long wait for new decent homes standard

How safe is your drinking water? Contamination notices surge 285% over five years
Water pollution

How safe is your drinking water? Contamination notices surge 285% over five years

Labour MP calls on government to boost universal credit: 'We need to up our game'
Neil Duncan-Jordan, MP for Poole, speaking in parliament.
Universal credit

Labour MP calls on government to boost universal credit: 'We need to up our game'

'Poverty destroys us': Big Issue founder John Bird urges Labour to set targets to end child poverty
Child poverty

'Poverty destroys us': Big Issue founder John Bird urges Labour to set targets to end child poverty

'Bickering between neighbours' but cash saved: What Labour's ground rent cap really means
service charges, flats, UK
Housing

'Bickering between neighbours' but cash saved: What Labour's ground rent cap really means

Is the £10 pint nearly here? Why drinks prices are going up
a barman serving a pint at the pub
Social Justice

Is the £10 pint nearly here? Why drinks prices are going up

How to fix the UK's broken water system
Water crisis

How to fix the UK's broken water system

More than four million children set to be in poverty by 2029 despite Labour two-child limit U-turn
A child wearing a teddy bear backpack
Child poverty

More than four million children set to be in poverty by 2029 despite Labour two-child limit U-turn

They warned free school meals would hurt school budgets. Something much more interesting happened
Sadiq Khan serves dinner
Free school meals

They warned free school meals would hurt school budgets. Something much more interesting happened

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Why you should take one hour out of your day and look to the skies
Britain's birds

Why you should take one hour out of your day and look to the skies

Thousands raised to pay for popular Big Issue vendor’s funeral: ‘We are better for knowing Paul’
Floral tributes and messages have been left on 'Paul's bench' in Summertown, Oxford
Our Vendors

Thousands raised to pay for popular Big Issue vendor’s funeral: ‘We are better for knowing Paul’

'I'm happy to pay for uni, but I'll never clear my debt': Graduates hit out at student loans crisis
Student debt

'I'm happy to pay for uni, but I'll never clear my debt': Graduates hit out at student loans crisis

Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham's Britain would look like
Andy Burnham with Big Issue vendor Colin
Politics

Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham's Britain would look like