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Jessica Murray

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
32
Latest publication
Sep 18, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Guardian UK
Top 1K sites
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Jul 3, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Jessica Murray

    ‘A man threatened to shoot me’: the abuse pushing UK councillors out of politics (opens the original)

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    Exclusive: Survey finds 78% of councillors feel at risk in their roles, with 52% saying intimidation has risen in past year Heather Williams has been shouted at in the street, received death threats, threats of sexual violence, and had dog faeces left on her doorstep. At one point, she didn’t leave her home alone for more than three months. It was not how she expected her life to be when she first ran to be a Conservative district councillor in South Cambridgeshire nine years ago. “It is ver

  2. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Jessica Murray

    Director who oversaw Grenfell cost-cutting given senior council housing role (opens the original)

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    Fire survivors and bereaved urge Barnet Group to ‘reconsider’ appointment of Laura Johnson, who pushed for cheaper contractor Grenfell survivors and bereaved relatives have criticised the “outrageous decision” to hire a director who oversaw cost-cutting at Grenfell Tower in a £150,000-a-year senior council housing role. Laura Johnson, the director of housing at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) at the time of the 2017 Grenfell fire, has been appointed the permanent director of d

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Jessica Murray

    ‘Why was mum in clothes you could wear in the winter?’: family seeks answers after care home heatstroke death (opens the original)

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    Thousands died because of this summer’s extreme hot weather – caused by the climate crisis. Anita Bazell, taken to hospital during June’s heatwave with a body temperature of 41.2C, was one of them Anita Bazell had never coped with the heat very well, her family said. So they were worried about her when temperatures across the UK soared to record highs of 35C (95F) in May, and then again in June. She was living in a nursing home in Southampton near her family, who had struggled to care for

  4. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Jessica Murray

    England’s housing courts at breaking point as renters battle no-fault evictions (opens the original)

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    Courts said to be ‘overloaded’ as landlords sell properties and tenants with nowhere to go try to delay evictions It is a Wednesday afternoon at Stratford housing court, and every seat in the waiting room is full. Over the next few hours, a conveyor belt of tenants and lawyers file into the courtroom to discuss their housing disputes – up to 29 cases are dealt with in a single day. In one case, a tenant is trying to buy more time after receiving a section 21 no-fault eviction earlier in th

  5. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Jessica Murray

    ‘I don’t have any friends’: why do young people today have fewer mates? (opens the original)

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    Social media, mental health problems, the pandemic and financial instability all contribute to the phenomenon On Tess Lavanda’s YouTube channel there is one video with substantially more views than the rest: it is titled “I don’t have any friends” and has been watched more than half a million times since she posted it a month ago. Over on Instagram she has posted dozens of reels with titles like “I turned 22 alone”, “Living alone in London” and “Feeling alone this summer is OKâ

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