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- The Poverty Alliance and Fair By Design gave cameras to 15 people on low incomes to show what being refused credit or a loan meant for them.
- A new report from the Treasury Committee has found that vulnerable people are most at risk as society becomes increasingly cashless.
- Britain went through big changes after the Second World War. But mistakes were made in the modernising of our nation.
- Ex-commando Tip Cullen is now an actor, starring in Sunray: Fallen Soldier. He writes about how the arts help veterans like him.
- Music in schools has a positive and wide-reaching impact on all education. Restore the Music is working to make it more accessible.
- Mum-of-two shares experience of 'dehumanising' DWP benefits system: 'It could kill somebody'
- Leni Riefenstahl was a great filmmaker... and a propagandist for the Nazi Party. A new documentary focuses on the woman behind the camera.
- It's 80 years since VE Day. To mark it, our special Letter to my Younger Self, features 100-year-old former Wren, Dorothea Barron.
- Tim Minchin might have written some of the biggest musical hits of our time, but he's happiest doing the weeding.
