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If you would walk 500 miles through Scotland, you can now walk 245 more down the north-east coast of England. The latest leg of the King Charles III England Coastal Path has opened, connecting the Marshall Meadows near Berwick-upon-Tweed to Bamburgh,

A worldwide TV audience of 328 million saw Bukayo Saka miss the penalty that cost England the European Championship at Wembley Stadium in July 2021. He was just 19 and had never taken a penalty in a senior match before. The abuse he received in the a

Two weeks before his 17th birthday, Stephen Woodhouse’s mum died of cancer. “We knew she was dying,” he says. “They gave her six months. She lasted five.” Still in mourning, he and his sister – just two years older, but classed as an adult – were lef

“Although it’s called care leaving, a lot of young people say that actually, care leaves us.” This is what Mary-anne Hodd, a former care leaver and developer of a game-changing guarantor scheme, says. When she left care, Hodd, who lives in Newquay, w

I’d gone from loving school when I was very small, and then really, really hating it once I got to around 12. By the time I was 16 I think my imagination started firing. And I was much more interested in stories and adventure than buckling down and d

Long-time regular Street Art contributor Vallely’s colourful paintings are her way of helping to deal with a history of depression and homelessness. She submits this artwork via the 240Project in London, a health activity centre for people affected b

The Castlemorton Common Festival in 1992 was the UK’s largest illegal rave. Castlemorton was widely covered by the media, resulting in around 50 arrests and uproar in Parliament about “anti-social” behaviour. This led to the passing of the 1994 Crimi

There is a 1991 book you may know by Don DeLillo called Mao II that explores a unique set of problems facing the modern writer. In that book, the reclusive novelist Bill Gray finds himself adrift from a society that no longer places the novel at the

In a complicated world with its impossibly complex problems, Ros Atkins has found a way to capture and convey the essentials. If there is a big news story – from Partygate to Ukraine – the BBC News analysis editor will have distilled the details into

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MARK MORGAN, 57 Trust means a lot to me. The best thing about selling The Big Issue is the regular customers I’ve built up over the years. I do gardening jobs for some of them. That makes me feel better about myself. One of my customers, her mum is