Meet Bex Grass and Rainbow the border collie. Together they sell The Big Issue at St Martin’s Church, central Exeter. Their incredible and powerful story speaks of the support that dogs can provide at the toughest times. It also emphasises the extent to which selling The Big Issue can help turn a person’s life around. Selling the paper made them part of a community that rallied around them when help was needed the most, leading to a remarkable act of generosity.
Grass, 43, who’s originally from Sidmouth in Devon, became homeless after a relationship breakdown a couple of years ago.
“I split from my partner. I was living in his council property,” she explains.
In the immediate aftermath,
