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News Rough sleeping rises after lockdownLockdown took a toll on many of us. When people began to struggle to keep up with rent payments and other housing-related issues, the government stepped in to provide aid. Now, that aid is slowly going away, and rough sleeping rates are beginning to climb back up. As a result of the financial strain and […]Read Full Article
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News Sam Fender Launches Petition to Help HomelessLocal music hero Sam Fender has launched a campaign and petition to provide free helplines for the homeless and vulnerable. The petition – which you can sign here (and we urge you to) – comes after Fender’s work with local homeless charities, including North East Homeless. They have found that of seven councils in the […]Read Full Article
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News Cop Gets Off On Feeding Homeless Faeces SandwichA police officer from Texas who gave a homeless man a dog faeces sandwich has had his dismissal overturned because of a technicality. San Antonio bicycle patrol officer Matthew Luckhurst won his appeal to have his termination reversed based on a technicality in the law which states that law enforcement cannot discipline an officer for […]Read Full Article
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News A week in mild amusementLet’s get down from business X-Factor contestants who were filmed excitedly enjoying business class were sent back to economy once filming stopped. I don’t see why people are annoyed by this. The short taste of opulence followed by a hard push back to poverty is great practice for the eventual winner. The only way they […]Read Full Article