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Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market 2019
The city’s renowned Frankfurt Christmas Market will mark its 20th year in Birmingham when it returns next month. The popular market will open on Thursday 7 November, filling New Street and Victoria Square for six weeks.
Universal Credit has led to people using foodbanks and parents can’t afford to feed their children
“It’s not easy for someone to ask for help and it’s not easy for someone to say ‘I can’t feed myself’.” Those are the words of one worker at a food bank in Essex. She sees people walk in every day in a desperate situation.
People are going for days without food – that’s normal now
Food bank manager, Chris Hardy, works with more than 30 volunteers to provide support to people in crisis in Sheffield. He tells Maryam Qaiser why cuts and austerity have left people unable to feed themselves.
Life at the migrant centre : ‘Changing lives, that keeps you going’
It’s a Friday morning in Wolverhampton, and the local branch of the Refugee and Migrant Centre (RMC) is teeming with people seeking advice. Despite the sombre reasons why many come to the RMC, there is a jubilant atmosphere.
Universal credit rollout ‘loads unreasonable risk’ on to claimants
The government’s expert adviser on social security has said the next phase in the rollout of universal credit could push thousands of claimants into hardship or even out of the benefits system altogether.
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Guardian : Communities
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- UK government loses supreme court fight over bedroom tax
- A gifted physicist reduced to living in his car: what killed Hamid Alamdari?
- We are failing children in care – and they are dying on our streets
- Heavy rainfall and more flooding forecast for week ahead
- Austerity has pushed families into crisis and then thrown away the lifelines | Richard Vize
- From bars to pod homes: how underused car parks are being transformed
- 'Brussels was all men': the painful progress towards EU gender equality
