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Report warns three-quarters of workers not on track for comfortable retirement
Photo: Ewan Aulton Millions of workers could be heading towards a retirement that falls short of their expectations, according to a new report warning that more than three-quarters of people are not on track for a "moderate" retirement income. The findings, published...
New exhibition explores 400 years of criminalisation of homelessness
Credit: Museum of Homelessness An exhibition exposing 400 years of systemic hostility toward the unhoused is underway in London this week. Criminal: An Untold History of Homelessness, Resistance and Survival launched on Thursday, 21 May 2026. It will run until 25 July...
Behind the initiative turning food waste into hope
Photo: WikimediaCommons The Real Junk Food Project was founded by chef Adam Smith, who opened the UK’s first ever ‘pay as you feel’ cafe in Armley, Leeds, allowing customers to pay what they wanted for the food they ate. Anyone who couldn’t afford to pay was given a...
Neighbourhood guarantee to set minimum standards for local services
Photo: Tse Chun Ming / Uproute The government says the new guarantee will cover issues such as cleaner streets, potholes and access to local services, as part of wider plans to shift power from Westminster to communities. Communities across England are set to be given...
First Muslim Liberal Democrat sworn in as Birmingham Lord Mayor
Photo: Birmingham City Council Councillor Zaker Choudhry, who moved from Pakistan, has been sworn in as the Lord Mayor of Birmingham City Council, becoming the first Muslim Liberal Democrat to hold that position. Cllr Choudhry was formally installed at a full city...
The places fixing more than furniture
Photo: Blaz Erzetic via Unsplash Repair cafes are popping up in community centres across the UK, creating a place where people can come together and fix their household items for free. On a Sunday morning in a community hall somewhere in the UK a kettle that hasn't...
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