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The artwork is blunt. Across the chest, in the lettering of a hazard placard, sit the words NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH. Above or beside them, a yellow caution triangle. Inside the triangle, a hand with a diagonal line through it...
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. Look at the rectangle first. A black-and-white speckled field, the kind of mottled card stock that has covered school desks for generations. Down the left edge, a dark binding strip....
In Bolton, a charity runs a warm hub out of a former mill canteen. In Bootle, a community land trust is trying to buy a bus depot. In Burnley, a co-op shopfront doubles as a credit union and a food pantry....
You have a problem with the council. The bin collections keep missing your street. The temporary accommodation contract is failing families. The bus route that connects the estate to the hospital has been quietly reduced. You have written to your councillor....
The community centre on Jubilee Street in Blackburn sits behind a low wall that children use as a bench while waiting for the after-school club. Inside, the noticeboard carries a timeline of the building’s life: textile mill warehouse, social club, mosque...
When Storm Desmond put Carlisle underwater in December 2015, the first hot drinks, the first dry socks and the first working washing machine came from a church hall, not from a category 1 responder. That is the plain truth about crisis...
