Family homelessness has risen 200% since 2011 and 55% of homeless people are in the labour force. Key to this is the need for adequate incomes, local authority housing and an affordable, secure private rental market, writes Niamh Randall.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey is still in search of the source of the White Nile so Allan Prosser gets a recall to mediate over your views and opinions again this week.

Though this over-long and more than somewhat tedious epic of the bloody American Civil War - or, if you are a true Johnny Reb, the War Between the States - does not do one of the most bitter conflicts in human history the justice it deserves.