WM Police remove anti-beggar posters after social media outcry
A week ago, social media activist @imajsaclaimant tweeted a snap of a poster appearing on buses around the West Midlands, encouraging people not to give to beggars: To date, the […]
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Homeless mother story – deleted
This article has been deleted, as SomersetLive has advised that they fell for a hoax. The tragedy is that there are tragic deaths and suffering every day under this government […]
Tory MP Bradley asks for homelessness sponsors – while £817m govt cash for housing unspent
Tory MP Ben Bradley is no stranger to missteps on social media, having recently had to pay an undisclosed five-figure sum to two local charities and tweet a humiliating apology […]
No.10 refuses to say how long ‘rough-sleeping task-force’ met or how many attended
The 10 Downing Street press office’s avoidance of any questions about the meeting – bizarrely trumpeted by Theresa May during this week’s PMQs (Prime Minister’s Questions) – of her ‘Rough-sleeping […]
Vid: May’s ‘rough-sleeping task-force’ – No.10 refuses to say when PMQ-featured meeting arranged
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn challenged Theresa May during PMQs yesterday over the fact that a ‘rough-sleeping task-force’ she had set up last November hadn’t met four months later – especially damning when […]
150 people sleeping outdoors tonight in Newcastle to raise homelessness awareness
As the ‘Beast from the East’ continues to wreak havoc across the UK, with Met Office red weather warnings affecting Scotland, South Wales and South-West England, the plight of rough-sleepers […]
Tory council’s ‘solution’ to town-centre rough-sleepers
Bournemouth Borough Council is a Conservative-run local authority. According to the town’s local newspaper, it has an ‘epidemic’ homelessness problem, with rates rising faster than the national average. As a […]