Friday, December 30, 2011

Street life


In 2008 London Mayor Boris Johnson set a target to eradicate rough sleeping in the capital by the end of 2012.

With a year to go to meet that objective, what progress has been made on the street?

On a chilly December night, I joined an outreach worker in the City of London to track down rough sleepers who had been reported to the charity that day.

Here's my BBC News feature.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Is the gay scene racist?


Mahad, 25, and Yan, 21, are asylum seekers who came to the UK to escape homophobia in their home country.

But since they arrived, they have been shocked to experience a different kind of intolerance – racism on the gay scene.

Here's my exclusive report for the Pink Paper.