Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century • Poverty figures render government numbers too little and action very late More than one in three children and a quarter of adults are living in poverty in the UK as deprivation […]

They are the couple who became pop stars and anti-poverty campaigners, fundraising for food banks with their songs about sausage rolls. Then came threats so extreme the anti-terror police stepped in ... A modern Christmas without a LadBaby charity single, some might say, is like sausage meat […]

The Michelin-starred restaurateur has signed an open letter demanding delivery of £15m to divert produce to food banks and soup kitchens Chef Tom Kerridge is teaming up with charities to demand delivery of a promised £15m fund to divert fresh but unused food from farms to food banks and soup […]

Food bank network Trussell has developed term to define deep poverty – but what does it mean, who is affected by it, and why? More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds A study by the UK’s biggest food bank network, Trussell, estimates one in seven of the […]

One million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago How many people in the UK are in ‘hunger and hardship’? More than 9 million people in the UK experience levels of poverty and hunger so extreme they are vulnerable to reliance on […]

More than 30 businesses have written to the environment secretary calling for mandatory reporting of wasted food Food companies should have to report how much they throw away as a first step towards reducing the vast amounts of edible food squandered in the UK, a group of prominent businesses have […]

John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton | Fearful poetry | Train horror | Lost Consonants | Starmer’s new clothes It was not just standard nuts and bolts that made the Crystal Palace possible (Solved: the mystery of how Victorians built Crystal Palace in just 190 days, 16 September). The whole […]

New Trussell Trust research is both alarming and shaming. Labour cannot defer action while waiting for an economic upturn One of the greatest achievements of the Labour governments in office from 1997 to 2010 was to significantly reduce levels of poverty in Britain. Over the course of 13 years, a […]