The Big Issue

MY PITCH

IAN, 58

I was 58 this month, and I’ve been selling the magazine for 18 years – 14 years in Wetherby, and before that, two years in Skipton and two years in Otley.

I started selling the magazine because I went through a divorce and lost my home, and things went from bad to worse. I thought, I’ve got to turn my life around; I’ll sell the Big

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