Thousands of pounds have been raised to pay for much-loved vendor’s funeral: ‘we are all better people for knowing paul’

I’ve been doing Big Issue for a while and when I first moved to Ilkeston I wanted to get somebody to make a lot more people aware of how hard it was to sell the magazine and what we do to get the mone

RESPONSES TO H is for Hawk star Claire Foy on talking about grief [Issue 1701, 19-25 January] ↓ You don’t get over grief. It changes you, you become a new version of yourself. A stronger, more empathi

As well as selling the magazine, I also handle the subscriptions, posting magazines out to subscribers. I like being in the office because I get on with the staff but I have seen a decline in subscrip

Love Big Issue and Lou, I think, who sold me the mag at St Paul’s station is a nice guy. Here’s a picture (above) that I took last week from my narrow boat on the River Lea where I have recently moved

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

One morning, after 65-year-old Chonthirat Sakulku had been bedridden for two years with deteriorating health, her brother found that she had stopped breathing and assumed she was dead. He alerted the