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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play concert using goods from the lost and found office at St Pancras

Members of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra struck a chord with commuters - by playing a piece of music using items left behind on trains, including a surfboard, a bicycle pump and a car tyre. The orchestra launched into 'An Ode To My Former Owner' using goods from the lost and found office. They wrote the brief piece of music, ensuring it consisted of 11,304 notes - the number of items lost each year on East Midlands Trains. Malcolm Wilson,...

Sunderland, Barnsley and Barking among areas with “zero rough sleepers” according to government’s shaky data

Sunderland, Barnsley, Barking and Dagenham were among the 33 councils with zero rough sleepers in 2017, according to a HuffPost UK investigation into shaky "official" government data. Charnwood, Braintree, Knowsley, Redcar and Eastleigh were also named in the government's statistics that rely on data from just one night of the year in autumn to inform policy. The investigation revealed that politicians use "snapshot" rough sleeper counts to provide data on the nationwide levels of homelessness, despite being unreliable. Last year’s figures show...

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