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  • Two older people with posters saying 'Energy for all. Fuel poverty action'

    Pensioner body calls on Reeves to reverse cut to winter fuel allowance

  • Wes Streeting holds up a placard with anti-development protesters in Ilford

    Not in the minister’s back yard: is Starmer’s cabinet onboard with housebuilding plans?

    The manifesto promises 1.5m homes – but some on the PM’s frontbench have had their own nimby moments
  • Maeve Boothby-O’Neill

    GP who treated woman with severe ME tells inquest more funding is needed

    Dr Lucy Shenton says specialist care is required for patients such as Maeve Boothby-O’Neill, who died aged 27
  • Angela Rayner in a hi-vis jacket standing with arms outstretched, smiling at the camera, as people stand in hi-vis and hard hats behind her

    Labour’s ‘grey belt’ plans could result in isolated communities, warns leading architect

  • Woman with allergies sneezing into tissue in office

    Presenteeism: what is causing Britain’s working-while-sick epidemic?

  • Blurred staff rushing around an NHS hospital ward

    English hospitals brace for ‘alarming’ disruption as GPs take industrial action

  • Aerial view of derelict factories and grassland bordering a residential area

    Developer pulls out of Frome regeneration project after public outcry

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    Women’s prisons have served their time. They should be abolished

    Eva Wiseman
  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Man in white t-shirt, with head in his hands.

    Pornography
    People who view abuse images need psychological treatment

  • chickens on a farm

    US news
    Flu vaccine will curb bird flu risk for US farm workers, CDC deputy director says

    US launches major vaccination campaign in a bid to prevent healthcare strain and potential mutations of H5N1 virus
  • Mil Markle and his wife, Jan, with a picture of his late wife, Carolyn.

    Experience
    Experience: My dying wife found me a girlfriend

    I created a dating profile, using words Carolyn dictated from her bed

  • Opinion
    Europe’s far-right surge has a lesson for Labour: fix the NHS to see off Farage

    Catherine De Vries

  • Housing
    Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame

    Reena Gupta

  • Opinion
    The Guardian view on GPs working to rule: family doctors need bigger budgets

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • Polly Toynbee

    Labour is right to ditch the winter fuel allowance – it isn’t ‘robbing’ old people

    Polly Toynbee
  • Angela Rayner announcing housing reforms in parliament.

    Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – as it happened

  • Debbie cares full-time for her elderly mother, works part-time as a cleaner, and claims carer's allowance of £81.90 a week. But she was one of hundreds of thousands of carers to receive a demand from the Department for Work and Pensions to pay back large sums of money for inadvertently going slightly over the earnings limit. Now Debbie and carers like her are starting to fight back and demand change to the system

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    I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

  • Photo of someone’s energy bill next to seven pounds in cash

    Up to 2m pensioners will struggle without winter fuel help, say campaigners

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Central & local government

  • Houses of Parliament

    Failed State by Sam Freedman review – how to fix Britain

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Badenoch campaign team member used offensive names about a councillor

  • Angela Rayner announces changes to the planning system in the Commons on Tuesday.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s housing proposals: revolutionary intent

  • Kemi Badenoch stands in a doorway

    Kemi Badenoch accused of ‘bullying and traumatising’ staff

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Voluntary sector

  • HvH Arts CEO Debbi Clark with children at its summer scheme.

    ‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty

  • Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

    Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

  • A multicoloured screenprint of Kate Moss

    Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

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Housing

  • George Clarke

    The new town I grew up in radically improved life for my family. Labour is right to champion them

    George Clarke
    • King Charles III and Queen Camilla after the state opening of parliament earlier this month

      Uk politics: Voters want MPs to swear allegiance to their constituents, not to king, poll suggests – as it happened

    • Rayner in a hi-vis gilet

      Planning changes will not mean ‘load of ugly houses’, says Rayner

    • New homes built by Taylor Wimpey

      Taylor Wimpey says Labour’s planning changes ‘important early step’ for more homes

    • Jenny Stevens in her garden.

      Everything must go! 16 ways to grow a portable garden – to take to your next rental

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