The cost of building a three-bedroom home is now higher than the home may be worth in a fifth of UK areas after “years of ...

TV presenter AJ Odudu is Trussell's newest ambassador, and regularly returns to her hometown, Blackburn, to volunteer in food ...

Robin Ince has discovered that his poetry is perfect for his ADHD mind – one that is after endless dopamine hits.

Music plays a huge part in our lives, but after years of struggling, are writers, historians and psychologists any closer to ...

Dante has inspired Jess Popplewell's new book The Dark Within Us, in which a modern teenager descends into the poet's version ...

Kim McGuinness could be one of the country’s most influential politicians. Who is the new mayor of the North East, really?

Dropping the two-child benefit cap would come at a cost of £2.5bn but lift half a million children out of poverty.

Homelessness in England has increased by 10% in a year driven by efforts to clear the asylum backlog and record private rents ...

Newcastle United's Saudi owners promised 'massive investment' in the city. Instead, the city's leaders have made fools of ...

A coalition of leading renters’ groups is calling on the government to introduce compensation for evicted tenants in the ...

Hundreds of jobs were lost on Tyneside when Nestle shut its factory down. More could follow if the UK doesn’t sort manufacturing plans out.

Homelessness services have warned the end of Rough Sleeping Initiative funding could leave them facing a financial cliff-edge ...