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This issue was going to be called the Poor Issue. We looked at the numbers and found there were a lot of poor people in the north. Through out Scandinavia, that's where the economical depression has ravaged, it's where everyone is on welfare or on sick...

Drinking is the national sport of Coober Pedy. It averages 45 degrees Celsius outside, the sports oval is a dust bath at best (and a mud bath at worst), and if you live here you're either unemployed or you work like a total miner ie. really, really...

Before: The little building front and center is one of the few remaining homeplaces in the mountains outside of Mud, West Virginia. The majority of the town has been uprooted by the expansion of Arch Coal's Hobet-21 surface mine, which covers...

I'm a recovering addict. I was a junkie. My drug of choice was cocaine, crack... Whatever I could shoot up, basically. My dad bailed me out of jail, the workhouse in Columbus. He brought me back up here and after about a week he had me thrown in jail...

120 Days are from Norway which is a very peaceful, prosperous country that's totally removed from the place that the rest of the issue is about.

CONVERGE No Heroes As well as all those songs that’ll rip your eyes out and put them back in the wrong way round, for some reason these dudes decided to include a 9-minute epic emo-metal-core

Metal has always been small town poverty's own soundtrack. Still, Monarch aren't your usual acne-scarred, faux Satanists from the sweaty, hairy armpits of Northern Europe. Like Thorr's Hammer (which was basically the younger, poorer version of Sunn...

I bought this hotel six years ago. It was cheap because everyone knew that the mine was closing down. Back then, it was used as housing for the workers. The big guns didn't stay here of course. They stayed down at the real hotel. It used to be proper...

I'm 20 years old now, and I am unemployed. I specialized in Economics in grad school. I never really felt like it was completely my thing, but I still kept going. When we were kids Laisvall School was still open, but there was only one girl in our...

I'm a Radford boy. I was born here in Sinnon Street, Radford, at home. There were no hospital births in those days. My father was a bricklayer. I'm a bricklayer. I'm a Radford boy. We're all

Photos by Alex Sturrock Gareth Mann, 20 Where are you from?

Gary Skyner (pictured above) does regular stand up comedy slots at Radford Variety Club's famous Sunday afternoon adult cabarets. Hosted by a couple of guys called Jesus and Pav, the show consists of two appearances by a stripper, adult bingo (bingo...