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New podcast: coming soon to Blackpool, a free week long training course for teachers and parents to help bullied schoolchildren
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The poverty truth team is back and lunch is on tomorrow. All welcome. Friends from council and Blackpool Transport #freelunch #residentled
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New podcast: what Margaret and her neighbours say when they learn their sea view is to become a building site. #Blackpool
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When our oldest resident, Doreen, came to lunch to say she hadn't seen the sea in 9 years, she didn't know 500 of her neighbours would come out in support. Petition: via @UKChange
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@SoniaBashir_ Lovely! From the dunes - Fylde Coast tonight
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“Without action to improve participation in democracy, populist movements will continue to gain” ⁦@IPPR⁩ ⁦@guardian
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2 months
#Homelessness @johnbirdswords calls on @BBCr4today for a Ministry of Poverty to pull together the 8 govt departments that deal in poverty and its effects - which account for 40% of all public spending. That’s some black hole
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2 months
Homeless project featured is an outcome of Poverty Truth Commission in Peterborough which is backed by @PeterboroughCC
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2 months
With his #R4Today guest edit, @DwayneFields wants to highlight the topic of homelessness. He visits Light Project Peterborough, which supports homeless people, and speaks to guest Peter about his experiences of sleeping rough.
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New: a Christmas story of joy, hope and destiny from a Syrian refugee whose home is now in Blackpool
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2 months
The trade behind fairly traded #footballs - featured by Lancs Chamber of Commerce in their latest news @Lancschamber
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2 months
What a year for the Poverty Truth team in Blackpool. We raise issues for the third of the town in seasonal work + on benefits + renting + in poor health/disabled. Back on air in January with ⁦@GedMills
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2 months
Great fun, games and gifts at the Metropole hotel Christmas Party with the Poverty Truth team. Special thanks to maestro Emma, the lads on the tea trolley, Father and Mother Christmas and ⁦@migranthelp
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Blackpool’s Rideability scheme for ‘vulnerable residents who can’t use public transport’ is scrutinised by the town’s Disability Forum
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Podcast: Who runs the new wheelchair taxis spotted in town? Hospital parking, and will Blackpool’s disabled residents be included in the new plans for transport?
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2 months
A Blackpool resident from Syria speaks of his joy at the fall of Assad @theleaduk @FolkwaysPress @SiobhanTweedal1
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A peer who called out discrimination as ‘economic folly’. via @johnpringdns
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2 months
Our resident-led investigation into wheelchair accessible transport in Blackpool is on the move. Podcast coming Monday. ⁦@HealthwatchBpl
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RT @ed_walker86: Retire to Blackpool. Sea view ruined. Our latest edition of The Blackpool Lead for @theleaduk and the ongoing tension betw…
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Now this seafront saga has another chapter… works to shore up sea defences will block sea view for more housebound residents. @theleaduk
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2 months
Blackpool Disability Forum today is at the Holiday Inn from 1100 - all about your transport stories. Here’s Emma:
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