The Government has been ordered to stop using “misleading” information about homelessness in the UK, following an intervention by the UK Statistics Authority. The data watchdog disputed figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government that claimed last year that homelessness had been more than halved since 2003. However, this claim was found to […]
Hundreds of mourners turned up at a funeral at Anfield Crematorium last week to pay their respects to a homeless ex-soldier, Steve McGrath. The congregation answered a ‘call to arms’ on Facebok that asked members of the public to attend and honour a man who had served his country to give him a fitting send-off. […]
A woman from Gloucester has finally married a man who she first met more than 40 years ago – when he was homeless and rooting in bins for scraps of food! Joan Neininger first met Ken Selway in 1975, when he was sleeping rough. But she thought he was different, dressed neatly in a grey belted gabardine […]
Several rough sleepers were arrested in Liverpool and could be deported for “abusing free movement rights”. According to Home Office rules, European Union citizens and their family members have the right to enter and live in other Member States. Where admission is permitted, an EU citizen is allowed to remain in the UK for up […]
Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool, has told council officers, the police and homeless charities to take action against people who, he says, are travelling into the city from other areas to beg for money. He also wants to tackle the issue of people who already have homes or are refusing accommodation because they want […]
A homeless shelter that anyone can use for free, with no questions asked, is being set up in St. Helens. The shelter will mean anyone who is sleeping rough in the town can turn up, walk in and be given a safe place to sleep whenever they need it. The idea for a self-contained shelter […]
A homeless man was the victim of a nasty Cambridge University student who burned money to mock those sleeping rough. Student Ronald Coyne, of Pembroke College, sparked outrage across the country after being filmed burning a £20 note in front of a rough sleeper who asked him for help. The homeless man, Ryan Davies, a […]
The owner of the Mersey Tunnel ventilation shaft in North John Street, Merseytravel, has applied for permission to move the famous green doors at the entrances so they are level with the front of the building, a report in the Liverpool Echo has revealed. It says the move is needed because the entrances to the […]
A group of squatters has occupied an empty £15m London property owned by a Russian oligarch, Andrey Goncharenko, and opened it as a homeless shelter. The squatters – Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians, better known as ANAL – said they gained access to the building through an open window on the 23rd of January and […]
Bosco’s volunteer gardeners are delighted to announce that they have bagged £2,000 from a Tesco funding scheme. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its ‘Bags of Help’ funding initiative, which sees grants of up to £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from the 5p bag levy – being awarded to local outdoor community […]
