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Vulnerable renters ‘hounded’ by utility companies to pay off landlord debts

Vulnerable renters ‘hounded’ by utility companies to pay off landlord debts

Thames Water has apologised for chasing a tenant who was recently homeless for his landlord’s bills
Ruby Lott-Lavigna 16 Mar 2023
UK government lets airlines off the hook for £300m air pollution bill

UK government lets airlines off the hook for £300m air pollution bill

The government wrote off emissions equivalent to 400,000 passengers flying from London to Sydney and back in one year
Lucas Amin, Ben Webster 16 Mar 2023
What Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrification

What Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrification

Fifty years after the squatters’ movement in east London, the Bengali community is once again under threat
Shabna Begum 15 Mar 2023
Cleaners are suing Great Ormond Street for alleged institutional racism

Cleaners are suing Great Ormond Street for alleged institutional racism

Ethnic minority hospital cleaners say they were denied NHS contracts and paid less than the majority-white NHS staff
Anita Mureithi 15 Mar 2023
Student nurses ‘excluded’ from Jeremy Hunt’s free childcare

Student nurses ‘excluded’ from Jeremy Hunt’s free childcare

Expansion of the free childcare scheme is supposed to help struggling families, but there are still barriers for trainees
Anita Mureithi 15 Mar 2023

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Update, 20 March 2023: We have removed this article as it omitted significant information about its subject.
Open democracy 14 Mar 2023
How the government went to war on refugee charities

How the government went to war on refugee charities

Fears that backlash will intensify as government presses on with its widely condemned Illegal Migration Bill
Adam Bychawski 14 Mar 2023

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