People from Glasgow will be giving their accounts of deprivation at Scotland’s first Poverty Truth Commission on 21 March - as it highlights the reality of those living on the edge in modern Britain.

A report published yesterday shows that the Government needs to do more if it is to achieve its goal of eradicating child poverty from the UK by 2020, campaigners have said.

The majority of the British public want the UK’s political parties to set out how they will end poverty in the country, a new YouGov opinion survey for the freshly-launched Get Fair campaign reveals today.

A church group has repeated its call for action to end inequality outside Britain's main urban areas. It comes as a new report shows that poverty and inequality are growing in Britain’s rural communities even faster than in towns and cities