Isabella McRae

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Feeling the heat? Help our vendors keep cool. Buy a summer support kit for £35 Health There was an impassioned debate on assisted dying ahead of the vote which will see MP Kim Leadbeater's bill taken to the next stage MPs have voted for a bill which could see assisted dying legalised in England and Wales. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will now go to the next stage for scrutiny in the House of Lords.

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Sponsored by Wales and West Housing The Big Issue speaks to four people supported by charity Oasis about life as an asylum seeker or refugee in Wales – from the Welsh people's kindness to their fears for the future Four friends, each a refugee or asylum seeker, sit outside together on a sunny afternoon in Cardiff.

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Feeling the heat? Help our vendors keep cool. Buy a summer support kit for £35 Social Justice These are the stories of Vietnamese adoptees and their families searching to learn more about their roots and each other Marie Maubouche was born in Saigon in October 1971 and was left on the steps of an orphanage when she was two days old. It was during the Vietnam War, and she knows little about her birth family or the first months of her life.

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Employment The Big Issue attended an afternoon tea made and served entirely by people with learning disabilities at the Hilton, which is offering employment and work experience opportunities to people who face barriers to work Much of this afternoon tea is like any other. There are the scones you top with clotted cream and strawberry jam, little rectangular sandwiches (some of which are pink) and delectable sweet treats which perch at the top of the cake tower.

1 week ago | bigissue.com | Isabella McRae

TV Rosie Jones expected the themes of her sitcom to be out of date once the Tories left government. So far she needn't have worried “I’m not sure how political you want to go,” says Rosie Jones, who is prepared to get very political. The comedian has made her first sitcom, Pushers, about a disabled woman (played by Jones) who turns to drug dealing after her benefits are cut.