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Exclusive: Increases since 2019 also outstrip funding for free school meals as costs jump, Lib Dems findThe price of school lunches has increased by more than a third in parts of England, increasing the pressure on school finances and family budgets du…
Own-label items available less than 1% of the time at Sainsbury’s Local, Tesco Express and Morrisons Daily, finds consumer groupLow-income families are missing out on the chance to pick up supermarkets’ lowest-priced essentials as fewer than 1% of the …
Mobile on-the-spot screening initiative begun in 2018 hailed as having ‘turned a huge corner’Growing numbers of poorer people are being diagnosed early with lung cancer after the NHS began on-the-spot chest screening in the back of trucks at supermarke…
Fears that number of people turned away at May’s local elections over identity could be underestimatedPolice forces have been alerted to the risk of a spike in disputes and confrontations at the forthcoming local elections, amid concern that new voter …
Dominic Raab denies wrongdoing after report on his behaviour delivered to Rishi Sunak this morningToday’s announcement by the Association of School and College Leaders that it is to hold a formal ballot for national strike action for the first time in …
Exclusive: Labour figures show scale of issue in England despite Conservatives vowing to abolish the practice four years agoAn estimated 40 families have been threatened with a “no-fault” eviction every day in England in the four years since ministers …
Up to 2.6 million people aged 18-34 in damp, draughty and cramped living conditions, says thinktankOne in six young adults in the UK are living in poor-quality housing, according to research that says damp, draughty and cramped living conditions are ha…
BBC presenter contributes to £88,000 fund in response to attack on Carly Burd’s initiative to help feed poorer localsGary Lineker has donated money to a woman’s charity allotment, which had been used to feed more than 1,600 people during the cost of li…
British community study finds groups experiencing high levels of poor health, racist assault, job insecurity and deprivationThe barriers which Roma, Gypsy and Traveller people face in modern Britain have been laid bare in unprecedented survey data, whi…
Exclusive: National Energy Action says progress on energy efficiency is too slow and not well targeted at fuel-poor householdsThe government’s home insulation scheme would take 190 years to upgrade the energy efficiency of the UK’s draughty housing sto…