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The City of Wolverhampton Council is concerned people could be more tempted than normal to turn to loan sharks this Christmas with the cost-of-living crisis putting huge pressure on household finances. The Council is supporting the England Illegal Money Lending Team’s new campaign #SleighNoToLoanSharks and wants to highlight other ways families can still have a happy Christmas this year without spiralling into a vicious cycle of debt.

The RSPCA is appealing to people to come forward with information after two puppies - one of whom was dead and the other barely alive - were found abandoned at Maurice Lea Memorial Park in Swadlincote. A local veterinary practice alerted the animal welfare charity after a member of the public had taken the tiny puppies - thought to be fox terriers - into them at about 4.20pm on Wednesday November 30, after finding them abandoned in the park in a black plastic bag.

Economic Secretary Andrew Griffith was in Edinburgh today, where he hailed the success of Scotland’s financial services sector and the strength of the Union. 

Speaking at TheCityUK’s Annual Conference, the minister praised the energy and vitality of Edinburgh, the second biggest financial hub in the UK, with one seventh of Edinburgh’s workers – 50,000 people – employed by the sector.

A Buckingham Palace household member has apologised and resigned over "unacceptable comments" made to a Black British guest at a reception hosted by the Queen Consort.

Ngozi Fulani, the founder of a charity supporting victims of domestic abuse, says she was repeatedly asked by a royal aide where she was "really from". She was asked at the Buckingham Palace event where she was from in Africa.

Hundreds more families and individuals at risk of homelessness are to get a safe and comfortable place to call home thanks to a £9 million investment by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).

The funding will enable Tamworth-based social enterprise Cornerstone to nearly double the number of properties it owns and uses to help families and others in desperate need of accommodation.

As the cost-of-living crisis bites and house & rent prices soar, many kind-hearted folks came together with the one goal in mind, to support young people and keep them off the streets.

Millennium Point once again played host to the St Basils Homelessness Sleepout where over 400 people from schools, businesses as well as individuals raised much needed funds by sleeping outside in cardboard boxes.

The finalists of the Wolverhampton Cares Awards have been congratulated by the City of Wolverhampton Council's Cabinet Member for Adult Services. The winners of the inaugural event, organised by the West Midlands Care Association and sponsored by the council and the Wolverhampton Cares campaign, were announced at a ceremony at Grand Station.

Children and young people from Wolverhampton joined together at the city’s Art Gallery for the Takeover Day challenge. The annual event sees children and young people consulted on a host of current issues and get involved in making decisions about things that affect them.

Key challenges for discussion included how to tackle bullying across the city, improvement work in the city centre and the issue of climate change, which saw young people learn about the City of Wolverhampton Council’s commitment to reduce emissions and meet with the project team to share their views and ideas.

Actions to combat the cost-of-living crisis, health inequalities and homelessness will be top of the agenda when dozens of faith and community leaders gather with public sector officials at a key summit next week.

Around 200 people are expected to attend the 2022 Faith in Action Summit at the Bescot Stadium in Walsall on Wednesday (30 November) to help drive forward new ideas and projects aimed at tackling some of the most critical issues currently facing communities across the West Midlands.

The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said. Content that encourages someone to physically harm will be targeted in a new offence, making it illegal.

The government said the changes had been influenced by the case of Molly Russell - the 14-year-old who ended her life in November 2017. Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan said she was strengthening the bill "to make sure these vile acts are stamped out".