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From budget-busting bids to spotting a ‘sleeper’, our columnist shares her antiquing (mis)adventures — as well as some priceless advice from the experts
...Suella Braverman is seeking to restrict the use of tents by homeless people in urban areas as the government grapples with rising numbers of rough sleepers on Britain’s high streets, according to Whitehall...
...This was the equivalent of a Special Operations Executive sleeper campaign, parachuted behind enemy bars and blowing up prejudice one vichyssoise at a time....
Designers are dreaming up coordinated collections of nightwear and bedding
...“Rough sleepers should be assisted, not arrested,” he argued. “Funnily enough if you’re forced to sleep rough on the streets, you don’t have access to deodorant or showers very often....
...Rough sleepers were disappearing off the streets. But hopes this kindled that ministers would honour their manifesto pledge to end rough sleeping altogether by 2024 are fading fast....
...UK charity leaders have called on Suella Braverman to “urgently reverse” her plan to restrict the use of tents by rough sleepers in urban areas, warning that it will cause a “totally preventable” rise in...
...She was also known as the first designer to prominently feature repurposed railway sleepers....
...Suella Braverman’s plan to ban rough sleeper tents will cause deaths, UK charities warn...
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...of migration, to many the most urgent political matter of the age, unfolding in microcosm through two teenagers: the boisterous Moussa (Moustapha Fall) and cousin Seydou (Seydou Sarr), the genial late sleeper...
...His chief of staff Andriy Yermak said Russian sleeper agents had tried to storm the presidential office in the first hours of Moscow’s operation with the intent to kill Zelenskyy....
...Well, such is the march of progress that these new measures to fine, move on or jail “nuisance” rough sleepers have been labelled even worse than the Vagrancy Act by the chief of charity Crisis and, er,...
...Nowhere but an upscale sleeper train can offer this deeply alluring combination of cosiness and grandeur, and it’s clear that only something pretty special will lure me from my capsule palace....
...As sleepers go, this was not a major one....
...It added that the government was spending £2.4bn to help people at risk of homelessness and support rough sleepers, including £220mn to fund thousands of beds and specialist support services through local...
...Developed from a series of essays, lectures and interviews between 2015 and 2022, the book borrows its title from the opening line of Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel The Sympathizer: “I am a spy, a sleeper...
...The housing advocacy group also reported a 26 per cent annual jump in the number of rough sleepers in 2023....
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...Of these a record 279,400 were stuck in temporary accommodation, according to the charity’s annual survey, which also reported a 26 per cent jump in rough sleepers....
...The 4,068 rough sleepers counted on London’s streets between last July and September was a quarterly record outside a pandemic, reports the Combined Homelessness and Information Network....
...By 1910, the sleeper was abbreviated into a reclining head on its side, with slight markings suggesting hair, nose, lips, closed eyes: the sleek, curvilinear bronze “Sleeping Muse”....
...Their first “Glasgow” toile, launched 20 years ago, captures the realities of the city’s urban poverty in unstinting detail — drug users, sex workers and rough sleepers — alongside new buildings such as...
...A record 279,400 of those were stuck in temporary accommodation, according to the charity’s annual survey, which also reported a 26 per cent jump in sleepers....
...Sleeper carriages, consisting of 12 compartments with beds that fold away and seats that fold out for day use. There are two types of sleeper compartment . . ....
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