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Leslie Morphy, chief executive of the charity Crisis, said: "The government's figures show that homelessness is on the rise once more, yet instead of redoubling their efforts to end this scandal, minsters are cutting housing benefit and weakening homeless people's rights to housing."

Homelessness on the rise as recession and cuts bite 2011

It gets about 65% of its funding from individual personal donations, according to Leslie Morphy, the chief executive, and each year much of that comes in from early-November to mid-January.

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Leslie Morphy, chief executive of Crisis, said: It is shocking … homeless people are dying much younger than the general population.

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"Midnight by the Morphy Watch" feels like a Twilight Zone chess story as it describes a man who stumbles upon a rare, collectible artifact: a chess-themed stopwatch once owned by chess champion Paul Morphy and two other famous chess players.

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Morphy added: Homeless people are amongst the most vulnerable in our society and it is clear that despite significant investment in the NHS they are not getting the help they need to address their health issues.

Homeless people in the UK revealed to have life expectancy of just 47 2011

Leslie Morphy, chief executive of the charity Crisis, said: "The government's figures show that homelessness is on the rise once more, yet instead of redoubling their efforts to end this scandal, minsters are cutting housing benefit and weakening homeless people's rights to housing."

Homelessness on the rise as recession and cuts bite 2011

Leslie Morphy, Crisis's chief executive, said: We are extremely worried.

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While most of her own international recipes are long forgotten, early 20th-century food writer "Countess" Morphy (born plain old Marcelle Azra Hincks in New Orleans) did leave us one timeless piece of culinary advice: "Simple cooking cannot be trusted to simple cooks."

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Her cover for Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict" is merely the most notorious image of this period: a naked woman's body brutally topped with a Morphy Richards iron where her head should be and grinning lipsticked mouths for nipples, neatly complementing the song's tale of mechanically compulsive sex.

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"Cuts will be devastating to London but it is vital we don't lose sight of the huge damage that will be done in the rest of the country," said Leslie Morphy, chief executive of Crisis.

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