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The best vintage clothes shops in Manchester

The price of clothes and shoes rose by 6.3% between January 2021 and 2022 - but thrift stores offer cheap alternatives

Manchester Evening News

Vintage chair in Oxfam gives shoppers creeps thanks to 'suspicious' note left on it

A vintage wingback chair with a spooky look about it has sparked some suspicion among spooked Oxfam customers, after staff attached a 'definitely not haunted' sign to it

Daily Mirror

Oxfam chair goes viral after shoppers spot 'suspicious' note attached to it

One staff member said the vintage chair looked like it "belonged in a haunted house"

Liverpool Echo

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‘Catastrophic hunger’: Charity urges truce extension in Yemen

Two-month truce is set to expire on Wednesday, prompting calls for an end to ‘the cycle of violence and suffering’.

Al Jazeera

The multiple faces of inequality in India

Known for its caste system, India is often thought of as one of the world’s most unequal countries. The 2022 World Inequality Report (WIR), headed by leading economist Thomas Piketty and his protégé, Lucas Chancel, did nothing to improve this reputation. Their research showed that the gap between the rich…

The Conversation

India the billionaire raj? Not so fast

Several reports in the last few months have sounded the alarm about growing income and wealth inequality in India. The statistics cited are not wrong, but they are incomplete. And they have produced sensational, but misleading, news stories.

Bangkok Post

Good Pop, Bad Pop: An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker review

Clearing out his loft gives the former Pulp frontman a chance to look back at his formative years, and the objects that shaped him

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The Hindu

New billionaire was created every 30 hours during the pandemic

Nearly one million people could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022, according to Oxfam

The Independent UK

Governments need to take urgent action to combat inequality -Oxfam

Governments need to take urgent action to tackle rising inequality which emerged over the COVID-19 crisis with a surge in energy and food prices ramping up pressures on millions of people around the world, Oxfam said on Monday.

Reuters

World's billionaires have grown richer over pandemic than previous 23 years

Charity Oxfam claims there are now 2,668 billionaires in the world, 573 more than in 2020 and they are collectively worth an estimated £10.2trillion

Daily Mirror

Food and energy billionaires $453bn richer than two years ago, finds Oxfam

While elite gather in Davos, charity calls for wealth tax after rich benefit from soaring energy and food prices

The Guardian - UK

World faces ‘unprecedented’ wave of hunger as Ukraine harvests worse than feared

Fears of famine grow as war slashes Ukrainian grain production by half, threatening vital exports

The Independent UK

Truss wants reassurance over ‘appalling’ behaviour before lifting Oxfam aid ban

The UK suspended aid funding to the charity in April 2021 following sexual misconduct claims against staff.

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Rare Palestinian Banknote Sold for 140,000 Pounds in Auction

Paul Wyman was volunteering in the Brentwood's Oxfam branch when he noticed in a package of donated goods, an odd-looking banknote of £100 Palestine pounds issued in 1920, Britain's The Daily Mail reported. Wyman, who located the note, chose not to put it on the shelves and instead called an…

Liverpool Echo

Rare banknote found in Oxfam charity shop sells for £140,000

Paul Wyman was in disbelief when the note sold for 1,400 times its original value

Daily Record

Rare £100 banknote found in charity shop sells at auction for £140,000

Paul Wyman was working as a volunteer at the Oxfam store when he came across the nearly 100-year-old banknote in a donation box.

Daily Mirror

Rare banknote found in charity shop sells for 1,400 times its original value

Paul Wyman found the rare banknote in an Oxfam shop and thought it looked a little unusual, but he had no idea it would be worth so much until it went under the hammer

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The Independent UK

Rare £100 note sells for staggering sum at auction

Proceeds will go to Oxfam’s work in east Africa and Ukraine, charity says

Wales Online

Rare £100 note found in charity shop sells for £140,000

Fewer than ten of these banknotes are known to exist

Irish Mirror

Half a tonne of unwanted clothes is dumped in landfill across Ireland every minute - how we can stop fast fashion

That’s why we’re taking a dive into fast fashion and solutions out there as part of our Reach for Zero campaign

The Independent UK

Priti Patel’s controversial immigration plans pass through parliament despite warnings of harm to refugees

‘Despicable’: Aid charities warn of suffering for those fleeing war and persecution

Belfast Live

Reach for Zero: Fashion is a huge climate issue - but you can help

Renting, mending and buying second hand all make a difference

The Guardian - UK

Waterstones launches scheme to raise £1m for Ukraine

Bernardine Evaristo and Jasper Fforde are among the authors whose books will be sold to raise money for Oxfam’s appeal

Salon

Billionaire wealth grows 62% in 2 years

Billionaires now own a combined $4.7 trillion in wealth, much of which goes completely untaxed

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