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Sobering reading
The Journal
|May 21, 2025
TWO stories in today's Journal - the financial situation facing St Oswald's Hospice, and the work done by food bank charity Trussell - both make for sobering reading.
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In both cases, these are charities who are doing crucial work in the face of difficult odds. It does not speak well of our society in recent decades that such critical services are reliant on fundraising and donations.
This story is from the May 21, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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