Actor charlotte ritchie on uk’s shameful food poverty crisis: ‘there are loads of people working really hard to make things better’

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“Everybody seems to die at Christmas, or there’s an explosion. You can’t just have a Christmas where you sit around and something wonderful happens. Unless it’s a baby.” Cheryl Fergison played lovably

→ Rising rough sleeping has made street homelessness more visible. Tent encampments are now commonplace in our cities. The camp at Adelphi Terrace beside the Grade-II listed Adelphi Theatre on the Str

I had my first-time experience of homelessness when I was 11 years old because I wouldn’t go to school. To go home from the bullying into an alcoholic background, plus I was sniffing glue, solvents an

In the UK, one in six households lives with food insecurity, meaning they struggle to access a reliable and healthy source of sustenance. Despite the abundance on supermarket shelves, millions of peop

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