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Jim O’Reilly has been working for the Pavement since December 2007.

Squatters Legal Network
Jim O’Reilly June 27 2013

SLN provides legal advice on the recent anti-squatting law, court support and a 24-hour emergency phone line

New to The List (in London and the West Midlands) in The Pavement this month is the Squatters Legal Network (SLN), a volunteer o...

Remember Cardboard City?
Jim O’Reilly May 19 2013

The current clean-up of Waterloo has echoes of the 1998 operation in the Bull Ring

  A joint operation between police, council workers and a group of local businesses, launched at the beginning of March, h...

Recovery College
Jim O’Reilly March 20 2013

The free college for homeless Londoners has become a huge hit

  A free college for homeless Londoners has become a huge hit – with hundreds of new students joining in recent mont...

Whatever happened to..?
Jim O’Reilly February 04 2013

Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice

  Since 2011, The Pavement has been bringing you updates on the extraordinary Ted Williams – the man with the &lsquo...

Pop-up housing
Jim O’Reilly December 10 2012

Fancy living in a refurbished lock-up garage?

  A bold new proposal from the Building Trust could see parking garages turned into prefab flats for the homeless. In a p...

Homeless man croc attack
Jim O’Reilly November 03 2012

Something UK rough sleepers don’t have to cope with...

British cities can be as dangerous as any for the rough sleeper, but at least the wild animals in the UK are limited to pigeon...

Pavement injustice
Jim O’Reilly April 09 2012

A new campaign is being launched to fight on-the-spot punishments for offences from leafleting to feeding the ducks

  A new campaign is being launched to fight “pavement injustice” across the UK - the practice of on-the-spot p...

Stuck in mud and then arrested
Jim O’Reilly March 06 2012

Being rescued was just the start of his problems...

  The Rio Grande river in New Mexico, US, is an icon of old cowboy films and stories of the American West. Recently it als...

Tent city fire
Jim O’Reilly March 06 2012

One man killed after fire breaks out at Lakewood, New Jersey, camp

  One man was killed after fire broke out in one of America’s most famous “tent cities” - the latest rem...

Landmark ruling on HB for Big Issue sellers
Jim O’Reilly March 06 2012

Romanian woman can claim housing benefit because she is self-employed

  There was tabloid outrage this month after a social security tribunal ruled that a Romanian woman could be given the rig...

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