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Labour MP Neil Coyle held up our rough sleeper front page in Parliament and threw a spotlight on a national scandal.

Our coverage, which gave a voice to people often seen suffering on the streets but rarely heard, is only the start of a campaign to ensure there are decent homes for all.

Britain’s homeless crisis shames a government which helped to create a catastrophic rise in rough sleeping and tolerated it.

So it is welcome news that, finally, Tories are joining the search for a solution which has cross-party support.

(Image: Julian Hamilton/Daily Mirror)

We are on the side of rough sleepers, families stuck in temporary accommodation and victims of bad landlords, as well as secure tenants in social housing and those who are struggling to buy their own homes.

Together we can build a better Britain and eradicate the cruelty of abandoning people to live on the streets.

TV or not TV?

Strictly star Len Goodman speaks for the nation when he says TV licences should stay free for the over-75s.

This is about saving millions of hard-up elderly from a sneaky Tory tax.

Like so many older people, Len has paid his fair share of tax over a long working life and is surely entitled to get something back.

(Image: BBC)

Theresa May is breaking an election pledge to keep Labour’s free TV licences for the over-75s, and the cowardly PM has blamed the decision on the BBC to try to evade responsibility – which is just dishonest politics.

Let’s pull the plug on May’s spiteful plan.

Last dance

The lights are going out in nightclubs all over Britain, the music turned off and doors locked for the last time.

Whether it’s because pubs now open late or folk are down the gym instead of dancing, the end of clubbing means the end of waking up at lunchtime with buzzing ears and a sore throat from shouting over the din.

It’s the end of a truly exhilarating era.