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Benefits Street

Index Benefits Street

Benefits Street is a British documentary series broadcast on Channel 4. [1]

162 relations: Age of majority, Alan Whitehead, Alex Cunningham, Allison Pearson, Ambulance, Annabel Giles, Anne Begg, Anti-social behaviour order, Back-to-back house, BBC, BBC One, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Two, Benefit fraud in the United Kingdom, Bevois, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Birmingham City Business School, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency), Birmingham Mail, Bridlington, Britain in Bloom, Britain's Great War, Broadcast (magazine), Cameron–Clegg coalition, Cannabis cultivation, Carl Chinn, Celebrity Big Brother (UK TV series), Centre for Social Justice, Channel 4, Channel 5 (UK), Charlie Brooker, Chris Bryant, Chris Williamson (politician), Clare Short, Conservative Party (UK), Cornwall, Coronation Street, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, David Cameron, DCI Banks, Department for Work and Pensions, Designer clothing, Documentary film, Dominic Sandbrook, Duncan Hames, ..., Economy of Birmingham, Ed Miliband, Edwina Currie, Electronic article surveillance, Famine, Famous, Rich and Hungry, Fly on the wall, Frank Skinner, Fraser Nelson, Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, Gazette and Herald, Gross domestic product, Hampstead, High-definition television, Homeschooling, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, HuffPost, Hull City Council, Hull Daily Mail, Iain Duncan Smith, Information technology, Jay Hunt (television executive), Jeremy Kyle, Jeremy Paxman, John Bird, Baron Bird, Katie Hopkins, Ken Livingstone, King Edward's School, Birmingham, Kingston upon Hull, Labour Party (UK), Leisure centre, Liberal Democrats (UK), Liverpool Echo, London, Love Productions, Maid, Matthew Wright (television presenter), Mehdi Hasan, Member of parliament, Middlesbrough, Mike Penning, Modern immigration to the United Kingdom, Mug, Newman University, Birmingham, Newsnight, Nick Clegg, Ofcom, Owen Jones (writer), Panorama (TV series), People Like Us (TV series), Physical education, Poverty porn, Prime Minister's Questions, Question Time (TV series), Radio Times, Reader (academic rank), Reality television, Richard Bacon (broadcaster), Samantha Brick, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Shabana Mahmood, Shilling (British coin), Shoplifting, Simon Hart, Social media, Soho, West Midlands, South East England, Southampton, Southampton City Council, Southern Daily Echo, Sport Relief, Steve Chalke, Stockton North (UK Parliament constituency), Stockton-on-Tees, T-shirt, Take-out, Teesside Gazette, Terraced house, Terry Christian, The Big Issue, The Bishops Avenue, The Bletchley Circle, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Northern Echo, The Observer, The Spectator, The Sun (United Kingdom), The Yorkshire Post, This Morning (TV programme), Tinopolis, Tony Hirst, Twitter, Unite the Union, Urban planner, Victorian architecture, Voice-over, Welfare Reform Act 2012, Welfare state in the United Kingdom, West Indies, West Midlands (county), West Midlands Police, Winson Green, Work and Pensions Select Committee, Work experience, Work permit (United Kingdom), World War I, World War II, 1080p, 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony. Expand index (112 more) »

Age of majority

The age of majority is the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law.

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Alan Whitehead

Alan Patrick Vincent Whitehead (born 15 September 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southampton Test since 1997.

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Alex Cunningham

Alexander Cunningham (born 1 May 1955) is a British Labour Party politician.

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Allison Pearson

Allison Pearson (née Judith Allison Lobbett; born 22 July 1960) is a Welsh author and newspaper columnist.

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Ambulance

An ambulance is a vehicle for transportation, from or between places of treatment, and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient.

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Annabel Giles

Annabel Claire Giles (born 20 May 1959) is a former television and radio presenter, actress, panelist, novelist and model; she is now a fully qualified counsellor/psychotherapist.

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Anne Begg

Dame Margaret Anne Begg DBE (born 6 December 1955) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South between 1997 and 2015.

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Anti-social behaviour order

An anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) was a civil order made in the United Kingdom against a person who had been shown, on the balance of evidence, to have engaged in anti-social behaviour.

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Back-to-back house

Back-to-backs are a form of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, built from the late 18th century through to the early 20th century in various guises.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live (also known as just 5 Live) is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, interviews and sports commentaries.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Benefit fraud in the United Kingdom

Benefit fraud is a form of welfare fraud as found within the system of government benefits paid to individuals by the welfare state in the United Kingdom.

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Bevois

Bevois is an Electoral Ward in the Unitary Authority of Southampton, England comprising the suburbs Bevois Valley, Nicholstown and Northam, with a population of 16,844.

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Big Fat Gypsy Weddings

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings is a British documentary series broadcast on Channel 4, that explored the lives and traditions of several Irish Traveller families as they prepared to unite one of their members in marriage.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham City Business School

Birmingham City Business School is a school within Birmingham City University based on the university's City North campus in Perry Barr, Birmingham.

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Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council is the local government body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974.

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Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham, Ladywood is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Shabana Mahmood of the Labour Party.

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Birmingham Mail

The Birmingham Mail or the Black Country Mail in the Black Country is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, England but distributed around Birmingham, The Black Country, and Solihull and parts of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.

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Bridlington

Bridlington is a coastal town and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, situated in the unitary authority and ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire approximately north of Hull.

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Britain in Bloom

RHS Britain in Bloom is the largest horticultural campaign in the United Kingdom.

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Britain's Great War

Britain's Great War is a British documentary television series that broadcast on BBC One 27 January 2014.

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Broadcast (magazine)

Broadcast is a weekly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry.

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Cameron–Clegg coalition

David Cameron and Nick Clegg formed the Cameron–Clegg coalition after the former was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to begin a new government, following the resignation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010.

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Cannabis cultivation

This article presents common techniques and facts regarding the cultivation of the flowering plant Cannabis, primarily for the production and consumption of cannabis flowers ("buds").

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Carl Chinn

Carl Stephen Alfred Chinn, MBE (born 6 September 1956) is an English historian, writer and broadcaster whose working life has been devoted to the study and popularisation of the city of Birmingham.

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Celebrity Big Brother (UK TV series)

Celebrity Big Brother is a British television reality game show based on the Dutch show Big Brother, created by producer John de Mol in 1997.

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Centre for Social Justice

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is an independent centre-right think tank co-founded in 2004 by Iain Duncan Smith and Tim Montgomerie.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Channel 5 (UK)

Channel 5 is a British commercial television network.

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Charlie Brooker

Charlton “Charlie” Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is an English humourist, critic, author, screenwriter, producer, and presenter.

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Chris Bryant

Christopher John Bryant (born 11 January 1962) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda since the 2001 general election and most recently the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons until resigning on 26 June 2016.

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Chris Williamson (politician)

Christopher Williamson (born 16 September 1956) is a Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Derby North since 8 June 2017, having served previously for the same seat from 2010 until 2015.

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Clare Short

Clare Short (born 15 February 1946) is a British Labour Party politician.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Coronation Street

Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

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DCI Banks

DCI Banks is a British crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network.

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Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the largest government department in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for welfare and pension policy.

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Designer clothing

Designer clothing is clothing that bears the logo of a recognizable fashion designer.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Christopher Sandbrook (born 2 October 1974) is a British historian, author, columnist and television presenter.

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Duncan Hames

Duncan John Hames (born 16 June 1977) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

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Economy of Birmingham

The city of Birmingham, in England, is an important manufacturing and engineering centre, employing over 100,000 people in the industry and contributing billions of pounds to the national economy.

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Ed Miliband

Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015.

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Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie (née Cohen; born 13 October 1946) is a British former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament from 1983 until 1997.

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Electronic article surveillance

Electronic article surveillance is a technological method for preventing shoplifting from retail stores, pilferage of books from libraries or removal of properties from office buildings.

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Famine

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies.

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Famous, Rich and Hungry

Famous, Rich and Hungry is a British factual television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 2014.

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Fly on the wall

Fly-on-the-wall is a style of documentary-making used in film and television production.

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Frank Skinner

Frank Skinner (born Christopher Graham Collins; 28 January 1957) is an English writer, comedian, TV and radio presenter, and actor.

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Fraser Nelson

Fraser Andrew Nelson (born 14 May 1973) is a Scottish political journalist and editor of The Spectator magazine.

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Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority

The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA), formerly Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA), is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom regulating the supply of workers to the agricultural, horticultural and shellfish industries.

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Gazette and Herald

The Gazette and Herald is a local weekly paid-for newspaper, established in 1816.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

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Hampstead

Hampstead, commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, northwest of Charing Cross.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) is a television system providing an image resolution that is of substantially higher resolution than that of standard-definition television, either analog or digital.

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Homeschooling

Homeschooling, also known as home education, is the education of children inside the home.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Hull City Council

(Kingston upon) Hull City Council is the governing body for the unitary authority and city of Kingston upon Hull.

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Hull Daily Mail

The Hull Daily Mail is a daily newspaper for Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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Iain Duncan Smith

George Iain Duncan Smith (born 9 April 1954), often referred to by his initials IDS, is a British Conservative Party politician.

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Information technology

Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

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Jay Hunt (television executive)

Jacqueline Leigh "Jay" Hunt (born 20 January 1967) is an Australian-born British television executive.

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Jeremy Kyle

Jeremy Kyle (born 7 July 1965), also referred to as Jezza, is an English television and radio presenter, best known for hosting the tabloid talk show The Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV since 2005.

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Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is a British broadcaster, journalist, and author.

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John Bird, Baron Bird

John Anthony Bird, Baron Bird, (born 30 January 1946) is a British social entrepreneur and life peer.

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Katie Hopkins

Katie Olivia Hopkins (born 13 February 1975) is an English media personality.

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Ken Livingstone

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008.

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King Edward's School, Birmingham

King Edward's School (KES) is an independent day school for boys in Edgbaston, an area of Birmingham, England.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Leisure centre

A leisure centre in the UK, Ireland, Australia (also called aquatic centres) and Canada is a purpose built building or site, usually owned and operated by the city, borough council or municipal district council, where people go to keep fit or relax through using the facilities.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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Liverpool Echo

The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror based in Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Love Productions

Love Productions is UK-based TV production company.

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Maid

A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker.

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Matthew Wright (television presenter)

Alexander Matthew Wright (born 8 July 1965 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) is an English television presenter and former tabloid journalist.

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Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British political journalist, broadcaster and author.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough is a large post-industrial town on the south bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, north-east England, founded in 1830.

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Mike Penning

Sir Michael Alan Penning (born 28 September 1957) is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead since 2005.

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Modern immigration to the United Kingdom

Since 1945, immigration to the United Kingdom under British nationality law has been significant, in particular from the Republic of Ireland and from the former British Empire especially India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Caribbean, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Hong Kong.

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Mug

A mug is a type of cup typically used for drinking hot beverages, such as coffee, hot chocolate, soup, or tea.

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Newman University, Birmingham

Newman University is a public university based in the suburb of Bartley Green in Birmingham, England.

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Newsnight

Newsnight is a weekday BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.

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Nick Clegg

Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015.

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Ofcom

The Office of Communications (Y Swyddfa Gyfathrebiadau), commonly known as Ofcom, is the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

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Owen Jones (writer)

Owen Peter Jones (born 8 August 1984) is a British newspaper columnist, commentator and left-wing political activist.

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Panorama (TV series)

Panorama is a BBC Television investigative current affairs documentary programme.

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People Like Us (TV series)

People Like Us is a British reality documentary series broadcast on BBC Three.

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Physical education

Physical education, also known as Phys Ed., PE, gym, or gym class, and known in many Commonwealth countries as physical training or PT, is an educational course related of maintaining the human body through physical exercises (i.e. calisthenics).

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Poverty porn

Poverty porn, also known as development porn, famine porn, or stereotype porn, has been defined as "any type of media, be it written, photographed or filmed, which exploits the poor's condition in order to generate the necessary sympathy for selling newspapers or increasing charitable donations or support for a given cause".

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Prime Minister's Questions

Prime Minister's Questions (often abbreviated to PMQs and officially known as Questions to the Prime Minister) is a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom, currently held as a single session every Wednesday at noon when the House of Commons is sitting, during which the Prime Minister spends around half an hour answering questions from Members of Parliament (MPs).

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Question Time (TV series)

Question Time is a BBC topical debate television programme in the United Kingdom, based on the radio programme Any Questions? The show typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by members of an audience selected on the basis of its political views and demographic.

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Radio Times

Radio Times is a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine.

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Reader (academic rank)

The title of reader in the United Kingdom and some universities in the Commonwealth of Nations, for example India, Australia and New Zealand, denotes an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship.

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Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, and often features an otherwise unknown cast of individuals who are typically not professional actors, although in some shows celebrities may participate.

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Richard Bacon (broadcaster)

Richard Paul Bacon (born 30 November 1975) is an English television and radio presenter.

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Samantha Brick

Samantha Brick is a British writer, producer and freelance journalist.

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Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, or informally Work and Pensions Secretary is a post in the British Cabinet, responsible for the Department for Work and Pensions.

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Shabana Mahmood

Shabana Mahmood (شبانہ محمود; born 17 September 1980) is a British Labour Party politician and barrister, Retrieved 7 December 2011 who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham, Ladywood since the May 2010 general election.

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Shilling (British coin)

The shilling (1/-) was a coin worth one twentieth of a pound sterling, or twelve pence.

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Shoplifting

Shoplifting (also known as boosting and five-finger discount), is the unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment.

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Simon Hart

Simon Anthony Hart (born 15 August 1963) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was elected in the 2010 general election and re-elected in the 2015 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, defeating the previous Labour MP Nick Ainger who had represented the constituency since its creation in 1997.

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Social media

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

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Soho, West Midlands

Soho is an area on the borders of Central Birmingham and Smethwick, approximately 2 miles north west of Birmingham city centre on the A41.

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South East England

South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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Southampton City Council

Southampton City Council is the local authority of the city of Southampton.

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Southern Daily Echo

The Southern Daily Echo, more commonly known as the Daily Echo or simply The Echo, is a regional tabloid newspaper based in Southampton, covering the county of Hampshire in the United Kingdom.

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Sport Relief

Sport Relief is a biennial charity event from Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, which brings together the worlds of sport and entertainment to raise money to help vulnerable people in both the UK and the world's poorest countries.

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Steve Chalke

Stephen John "Steve" Chalke, (born 17 November 1955) is a British Baptist minister, the founder of the Oasis Charitable Trust - now one of the UK's largest charities, a former United Nations' Special Adviser on Human Trafficking and a sometimes outspoken Christian leader, popular public speaker, entrepreneur and social activist.

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Stockton North (UK Parliament constituency)

Stockton North is a constituency covering the town of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham and other nearby settlements in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees located north of the River Tees, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Alex Cunningham, a member of the Labour Party.

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Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in the ceremonial county of County Durham, North East England.

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T-shirt

A T-shirt (or t shirt, or tee) is a style of unisex fabric shirt named after the T shape of its body and sleeves.

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Take-out

Take-out or takeout (in North America—U.S. and Canada—and the Philippines); carry-out (in some dialects in the U.S. and Scotland); take-away (in the United Kingdom other than Scotland, Australia, South Africa, and Ireland), takeaways (in New Zealand), parcel (in Indian and Pakistani English), refer to prepared meals or other food items, purchased at a restaurant, that the purchaser intends to eat elsewhere.

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Teesside Gazette

The Teesside Gazette is a newspaper serving the Teesside area of England.

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Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) exhibits a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls.

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Terry Christian

Terence Christian (born 8 May 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist and author.

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The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents.

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The Bishops Avenue

The Bishops Avenue, London N2, connects the north side of Hampstead Heath at Kenwood (Hampstead Lane), Hampstead to East Finchley and is on the boundary between the London Boroughs of Barnet and Haringey.

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The Bletchley Circle

The Bletchley Circle is a television mystery drama miniseries, set in 1952–53, about four women who used to work as codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Northern Echo

The Northern Echo is a regional daily morning newspaper, based in the town of Darlington in North East England; serving County Durham and Teesside.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Sun (United Kingdom)

The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

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The Yorkshire Post

The Yorkshire Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds in northern England.

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This Morning (TV programme)

This Morning is a British daytime television programme that is broadcast on ITV.

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Tinopolis

Tinopolis plc is a Welsh independent television production company, owned by its senior management and private equity company Vitruvian Partners.

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Tony Hirst

Anthony "Tony" Hirst (born 21 January 1967) is a British actor and theatre director, best known for playing Mike Barnes on the soap opera Hollyoaks and in Coronation Street as Paul Kershaw, the love interest of Eileen Grimshaw.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Unite the Union

Unite the Union, commonly known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union, formed on 1 May 2007, by the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union.

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Urban planner

An urban planner is a professional who practices in the field of urban planning.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Voice-over

Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice—that is not part of the narrative (non-diegetic)—is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations.

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Welfare Reform Act 2012

The Welfare Reform Act 2012 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which makes changes to the rules concerning a number of benefits offered within the British social security system.

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Welfare state in the United Kingdom

The welfare state of the United Kingdom comprises expenditures by the government of the United Kingdom intended to improve health, education, employment and social security.

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.

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West Midlands Police

West Midlands Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Winson Green

Winson Green is a loosely defined inner-city area in the west of the city of Birmingham, England.

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Work and Pensions Select Committee

The Work and Pensions Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Work experience

Work experience is any experience that a person gains while working in a specific field or occupation, but the expression is widely used to mean a type of volunteer work that is commonly intended for young people — often students — to get a feel for professional working environments.

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Work permit (United Kingdom)

The UK Work Permit scheme was an immigration category used to encourage skilled workers to enter the United Kingdom (UK) until November 2008, when it was replaced by the points-based immigration system.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1080p

1080p (1920×1080 px; also known as '''Full HD''' or FHD and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1080 horizontal lines of vertical resolution; the p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced.

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2012 Summer Paralympics

The 2012 Summer Paralympics, the 14th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), that took place in London, United Kingdom from 29 August to 9 September 2012.

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2012 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony

The closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics, also known as The Festival of the Flame, was held on 9 September at the Olympic Stadium in London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefits_Street

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