'Falling through the cracks'
| | | | More than 32,000 homeless families in England and Wales have been abandoned by councils since 2015 because they missed at least one step in a rigid process for getting help.
Leading campaigners worry vulnerable homeless people — including those with mental health problems — are being left on the streets because of things as minor as missing an email or an undelivered letter. |
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The ad has already been slammed in a tweet by Donald Trump Jr., who called reporters “hypocrites” on Thursday for failing to criticise it. |
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| | | | Thirty years ago, I stood cheering outside the Old Bailey as Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four walked free from court. It felt like a Hollywood moment.
Minutes earlier, the four had been cleared of their wrongful conviction for the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings. After 15 years, justice had finally been done. |
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When, at the swimming gala, I didn’t want to get changed in front of all the other kids because they would see my tummy? When I was given a calorie counting book by my grandma at age eight? When all the parents laughed at my friend and me in the class assembly because I was three times the size of him, both in height and weight? |
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| | | | It’s been four months since I made the switch from supermarket cartons to milk delivered in glass bottles – something those who grew up in the 1980s or earlier will be familiar with – and to be perfectly honest with you, I doubt I’ll ever go back. The pros far outweigh the cons and my recycling bin is getting emptier week by week.
Our milkman delivers us a couple of pints of milk on a Tuesday and Saturday morning, right to our front door, via an electric milk float. The unassuming whirring sound as he zips down the street in his float and the jingling of glass bottles has become music to my ears. |
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'Falling through the cracks'
| | | | More than 32,000 homeless families in England and Wales have been abandoned by councils since 2015 because they missed at least one step in a rigid process for getting help.
Leading campaigners worry vulnerable homeless people — including those with mental health problems — are being left on the streets because of things as minor as missing an email or an undelivered letter. |
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| | | | | | | | | A riveting clothing advertisement on a Times Square billboard depicts a female Marine veteran in athletic wear hogtying a man who appears to be President Donald Trump in front of the White House.
The ad has already been slammed in a tweet by Donald Trump Jr., who called reporters “hypocrites” on Thursday for failing to criticise it. |
| 'THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY'
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| | | | Thirty years ago, I stood cheering outside the Old Bailey as Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four walked free from court. It felt like a Hollywood moment.
Minutes earlier, the four had been cleared of their wrongful conviction for the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings. After 15 years, justice had finally been done. |
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| | What do I choose as the turning point, the moment of realisation?
When, at the swimming gala, I didn’t want to get changed in front of all the other kids because they would see my tummy? When I was given a calorie counting book by my grandma at age eight? When all the parents laughed at my friend and me in the class assembly because I was three times the size of him, both in height and weight? |
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| | | | It’s been four months since I made the switch from supermarket cartons to milk delivered in glass bottles – something those who grew up in the 1980s or earlier will be familiar with – and to be perfectly honest with you, I doubt I’ll ever go back. The pros far outweigh the cons and my recycling bin is getting emptier week by week.
Our milkman delivers us a couple of pints of milk on a Tuesday and Saturday morning, right to our front door, via an electric milk float. The unassuming whirring sound as he zips down the street in his float and the jingling of glass bottles has become music to my ears. |
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