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The colourful garment comprises currency once worth around £5,000 - but is now virtually worthless due to the country's economic crisis.

Celebrated food writer Jack Monroe is set to release a cook book for food bank users to help those on a shoestring budget maintain a nutritious, appetising and varied diet. Tin Can Cook focuses on using tinned or dried ingredients and is inspired by Monroe’s own experience of using food ...

Philip Alston has accused Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd of trying to distract from the troubling findings in his report on extreme poverty in the UK. The UN’s Special Rapporteur responded to accusations that he did not do enough research and was biased in his final report on poverty ...

The history of London’s secret rivers will go on show this week in a major new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands. Secret Rivers uses art and archaeology to uncover the lesser-known histories of rivers such as the Effra, Fleet, Neckinger, Lea, Wandle, Tyburn, Walbrook and Westbourne. The tributaries ...

The UK Government’s policies have led to the systematic immiseration of millions across Great Britain, the UN’s expert on poverty and human rights said in a report released today, calling for a new vision that embodies compassion to end the unnecessary hardship.   Philip Alston’s report, released following his official visit ...

“After the show I just wanted the ground to swallow me up. If it wasn’t for my kids I would have ended it. "I am relieved the show has been taken off the air and I hope it never comes back. Mental health is a serious subject and this show ...

The UK’s super rich are preparing to leave the UK should Jeremy Corbyn enter Downing Street, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed. A record 151 billionaires were recorded on the paper’s Rich List this year, a 9.2 per cent rise on last year with a combined wealth of nearly £525 ...

Cuts to youth services could have contributed to a surge in knife crime, findings from a Commons’ all-party parliamentary group have revealed. This weekend a teenager became the 29th person to be fatally stabbed in London this year after he was chased through the streets by a lone knifeman before ...

James Alexander, 42, was caught by the National Crime Agency after he sent money to known facilitators who had live-streamed child sexual abuse from Illigan City