The homelessness minister, Heather Wheeler, has
apologised after leaked emails showed her using “racist” language to describe
rough sleepers before she joined the government. In an email sent in October
2017 to a homeless charity three months before she became minister, the
Conservative MP for South Derbyshire described rough sleepers in her
constituency as “the traditional type, old tinkers, knife-cutters wandering
through”. Read more on the Guardian website.
Fee hikes will price us out of canals, say houseboaters in England and Wales
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Charges to go up by as much as 75% for widest vessels under five-year
licence increases that started in April
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