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Begging ban proposed for Scotland’s streets

Scottish charities are sceptical about former Conservative candidate’s idea   more...

Brum diners hope to raise £7,000

StreetSmart channels restaurant-goers’ donations into services for the region’s homeless people   more...

Channel 4 tackles UK’s empty homes

Hard-hitting series highlights a million empty houses   more...

Features

A rubbish way to die

 It’s time to wake up to the dangers of bin deaths   more...

From the abyss to the arts

Social enterprise founder wants to help others who have found themselves drug-dependent   more...

Protest camp is food source for rough sleepers

The new face of political protest in St Paul’s and Finsbury Square   more...

Letters

Westminister - two sides of the argument

A former rough sleeper and a Westminster councillor have - unsurprisingly - rather different views
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Vocal critic

A reader dislikes The Pavement
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Bite the hand?

A reader picks a bone with Jeremy Swain
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Information

New service user led forum

New group wants to improve substance isuse services in Birmingham
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Heroin 'drought' alert

Fungus hits poppy crop
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Housing benefit help

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Opinion

Absurd Vagrancy Act must go

Idle and disorderly persons can be branded criminals under 200-year-old legislation   more...

Misuse of the Vagrancy Act

The number of times this outmoded legislation has been used has trebled in recent times   more...

What does the word 'recovery' mean?

Rightly or wrongly, when you use drugs in chaotic and harmful way, you abrogate many of your rights, and society turns against you   more...

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