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There are currently over 700 households living in temporary or emergency accommodation across Cornwall

Services for Watford’s rough sleepers have been given a £1.5 million boost to tackle homelessness.

“It’s a wonderful experience to have somewhere to call home. I haven’t had that for more than six years.” Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter lived on

After years living on the streets, the Government’s Next Steps Accommodation Programme has given Peter a new home and hope for the future.

Records show that since 2014, Peterborough City Council has paid Eastfield in excess of £2.6m to house the homeless.   Hundreds of payments of smaller amounts have been paid out by Fenland Council and are listed on the council’s public expenditure charts that are obliged to show all payments over £500.  However, many of these payments are redacted.  The council says the payments were made to organisations/individual contractors for supplies and services during the pandemic.   “Names h...

Lincoln ticket conman admits scam but avoids jail People scammed to feed gambling addiction | Photo: The Lincolnite A Lincoln fraudster addicted to gambling, who scammed 85 victims by selling them non-existent tickets to events worth up to £9,0000, has been convicted but spared jail. Jesse Wilkinson gained the trust of his victims during online chats over Facebook, which began with him commiserating with them when they missed out on tickets for in-demand events. Jeremy Janes, prosecuting, said...

Paedophile back in jail after assaulting two children and drugging another He didn’t tell the mother about being a sex offender Benjamin Johnson, a registered sex offender, has been sent back to prison for six years. | Photo: Humberside Police A registered sex offender has returned back to prison for six years after failing to comply with release requirements when he sexually assaulted two children. Benjamin Johnson, 34 and from Scunthorpe, went to extensive measures to conceal a year-long re...

| Photo: Connor Creaghan for The Lincolnite A new report, which reveals 31 people in Louth were sleeping rough last year, has highlighted how invisible the issue in East Lindsey can be. A report before the Overview Committee next Tuesday (June 1) shows that the average nightly number of people sleeping rough in the district dropped by more than 77% in three years, councillors will be told next week. An annual snapshot showed the number of people on the district’s streets on a “typical night...

Torus housing group is currently redeveloping three flat blocks off Appleton Road, Peasley Cross. The £2.2m project will transform the properties, which over the years have proved increasingly difficult to let, into much needed supported housing. With a view to tackling homelessness and rough sleeping in the borough, two of the block, Stables Court and Frontfield Court, are being refurbished into Champions Court, providing 28 quality homes with a 24-hour support team on-site for people w...

MORE than 150 households in Worcester were assessed as either being homeless or at risk of homelessness last winter.