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Fleur Doidge

Fleur Doidge is a freelance journalist. Follow her on Twitter @Fleur_Journal.
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How charities plan to engineer an end to rough sleeping – forever

Fleur Doidge
1 June, 2020

Charities are putting forward ambitious plans to end homelessness at last.

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Where the covid-Brexit double whammy will hit hardest – new report

Fleur Doidge
1 June, 2020

Analysis from progressive charitable alliance forecasts tougher times for UK workers for the next four or five years – particularly in the regions.

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One in five nurseries and pre-schools lost a quarter of their employees to job pressures in 2019

Fleur Doidge
9 March, 2020

Workers such as teachers suffering from years of government cuts are continuing to leave the industry.

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Latest Dover disruption plans still ignore lorry drivers: Unite

Fleur Doidge
18 February, 2020

Kent roads could become giant parking lot while lorries queue to cross borders.

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Frost warms up No Deal in ‘divergent’ free trade speech

Fleur Doidge
18 February, 2020

No need for post-transition UK-EU alignment, says negotiator; others less convinced.

Amazon accidents tip of health and safety iceberg in UK workplaces

Fleur Doidge
18 February, 2020

Hundreds of thousands of UK workers every year are injured, killed or fall ill as a result of working practices, statistics show.

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University of Liverpool staff consider strike over lower redundancy pay

Fleur Doidge
27 January, 2020

Staff made redundant in 2018 from Liverpool offered £15,000 more on average, says union.

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Another Daily Mail editor gears up to manage scrutiny of No. 10

Fleur Doidge
27 January, 2020

Ex-journalists from right-wing newspapers shepherded into Tory positions of power and public influence.

FOI response to Neil Cowan from the Dept of Work and Pensions

Tories deny knowledge of poverty caused by Universal Credit delays

Fleur Doidge
27 January, 2020

Freedom of Information response claims department has no analysis of payment delays, despite a 2019 admission by the then secretary of state.

Sana'a residential area destroyed in Yemen after an airstrike

Rising arms sales to Saudi Arabia show Tory disregard for law and lives: Oxfam

Fleur Doidge
27 December, 2019

Charity reveals increased UK arms licensing activity with the fastest growth in sales to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen.

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