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Jul 29, 2024 | 
msn.com | Hope Webb |Emma Bell
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Hope Webb |Emma Bell
Brian Closs is a full-time carer for his two autistic teenagers and has been receiving income support with child benefit, carers allowance and child tax credits. But these benefits are being phased out by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) as part of a "managed migration" to universal credit payments. Money is already tight for Brian, 55, but in order to receive his new benefit he has to claim and then wait more than a month for his new payment.
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May 31, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Hope Webb |Emma Bell
How the cashless society is hurting the poorestHope Webb and Emma Clifford Bell,BBC Scotland NewsBBCCaroline Cawley uses cash because she finds it easier to manageChronic pain caused by fibromyalgia means that Caroline Cawley has been unable to work for eight years and she finds it difficult to travel. If the local post office is closed, the 41-year-old faces the choice of paying a £1.99 fee at her nearest cash machine or taking a bus to a supermarket to withdraw money.
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May 20, 2024 | 
msn.com | Hope Webb |Emma Bell
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May 20, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Hope Webb |Emma Bell
No supermarket for Castlemilk despite promisesHope Webb and Emma Clifford Bell,BBC Scotland NewsBBCCharlie Gallagher has to pay £8 for a taxi home as she struggles to carry heavy shopping bagsA neighbourhood on the outskirts of Glasgow where locals have been campaigning for a supermarket is still waiting for progress despite being promised a "household name" store two years ago.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emma Bell
Mother-of-four Louise is a regular face at the North Ayrshire foodbank larder and says some weeks she would not have survived without its help. “Being able to know that we can definitely get enough food for everybody and nobody needs to miss a meal is such a relief,” she says. “There's a little bit of feeling like you're not quite doing enough, you're not quite good enough as a parent,” she says.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Emma Bell
Harper House is the only drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit in Scotland that supports parents to get clean while still having responsibility for their children. "This place has saved my life," says Rebecca, whose name has been changed to protect her identity. The mum-of-two says her life was chaotic before she came to the unit, with no structure or routine. "It was a horrible lifestyle," she says.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Emma Bell |Hope Webb
Favour Asante has been wrangling for years over a non-existent debtAfter years of battling with her energy supplier over a non-existent debt, Favour Asante has finally had an apology and the full amount written off. Scottish Power wrongly believed she owed them more than £2,000 which eventually led to the firm forcibly installing a prepayment meter in her home while she was visiting family abroad.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
theconcordian.com | Emma Bell
Queer Cameroonian-Belgian artist and Concordia Studio Arts BFA student Mallory Lowe Mpoka is currently exhibiting at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto as part of a group exhibition titled Re-Mixing African Photography: Kelani Abass, Mallory Low Mpoka and Abraham Oghobase. The exhibition is situated in the inner gallery space of the Department of the Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
theconcordian.com | Emma Bell
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts recently opened their new exhibition The Pop of Life! Pop Art in the Collection of the MMFA. The exhibition features a selection of around 70 artworks from the museum’s collection that belong to the Pop art movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The thematic display takes the audience on a tour of the numerous concerns the artists associated with the movement: commodity culture, political events and the sexual objectification of women.
