General Article Charity condemns 'unequal' England

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A Church of England charity has described England as one of the most unequal countries in the western world as research was published showing an ‘alarming disparity’ between the richest and poorest neighbourhoods in the country.
Nine out of ten of the poorest communities – five of them in Liverpool – are in the north west of England with the tenth in Middlesbrough in the north east, found research by the Church Urban Fund (CUF).
Only two of top ten least-deprived communities were in the north o...

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