Greg Barradale
Reporter at The Big Issue
Senior reporter @bigissue Winner, News & Investigations, MHP 30toWatch '23 / Shortlisted, Feature Writer of the Year, BSME Awards '23 DMs open for stories🗞
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1 week ago |
bigissue.com | Greg Barradale
Housing Ali was sharing one bed in a homeless hostel with his wife and young son. When his baby daughter was born, he didn't want to bring her to that environment Ali’s wife had just given birth to a baby girl. His family, homeless after being granted refugee status, was living in a single room in a hostel. In the run-up to the baby’s birth – with Ali, his wife and their son sharing the same bed – they had worried about losing the baby.
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1 week ago |
bigissue.com | Greg Barradale
Politics 'The more they come after Kneecap the louder they will get,' say the band's legal team after bail on terror charge Hannagh Inglas flew from Dublin to London last night for one reason: to show support for Kneecap. As Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh had his day in court, the first hearing over a terrorism charge, more than 200 people massed outside Westminster Magistrates Court to show support in a case which has dominated headlines. For Inglas, who spent £160 on the trip, it was simple.
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1 week ago |
bigissue.com | Greg Barradale
Social Justice As the government sets out to end the 'wild west' of buy now pay later loans, an ethical lender says it has an alternative to the cycle of debt Tina Sellars, a single parent living in Sheffield, working at a bakery as she supported her daughter, had got in trouble with store cards and buy now, pay later (BNPL) debt. “They just threw them at you in those days, I just got too many and in too deep,” she said. “You just got them too easy.
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2 weeks ago |
bigissue.com | Greg Barradale
Social Justice Islington Council are taking Islington Foodbank to court, saying they are trespassing. The food bank say they will be forced to close if it succeeds A showdown looms between a council and a food bank in an area with some of England’s highest child poverty levels, as Islington Council attempts to evict a food bank which it claims is trespassing on its land.
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2 weeks ago |
bigissue.com | Greg Barradale
Politics From social housing to nuclear reactors, Rachel Reeves splashed about the billions as she announced her spending review. But there were big absences Social housing, mini nuclear reactors and local buses are the big winners from Rachel Reeves’ spending review, as the chancellor set out how the Labour government will spend its pocket money.
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