Character study 'The Big Issue Sellers'

Our chosen subject is about the people who sell The Big Issue on the streets of Nottingham. When you write ‘The Big Issue Sellers’ in to Google, all you come up with it the bad stuff they have done. Like on this website there was some drug dealing going on back on October 18th 2003 in Liverpool. 52 people were arrested and 30 of them were Big Issue Sellers.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,,1065720,00.html

They have an official website with information about them. It tells you they get 80p from each magazine they sell for £1.40. Also gives links out to people who need help with getting back on their feet.

Link: http://www.bigissue.com/selling.html

Also a few sites have people complaining about the number of big issue sellers there are out on the street or complain about how they react with the public. Like this one posted by James Lark at February 24, 2005.

It's a growing problem on the streets of Cambridge. I don't mind people thrusting the Big Issue in my face every 200 yards, and I'll quite happily buy it from people who are using inventive ways of selling their product - the people who charm you into buying one, or who include a juggling dog as part of their act, or who persuade you to part with your money under the pretence of selling the Radio Times. Quite happy with all of those. (Well, I'd actually be mightily pissed off with anyone who did the last of them to me, but I would also feel a kind of grudging respect for them.)
But what's bothering me is the people who stand making sarcastic comments to passers by, along the lines of "don't all push at once" but repeated with dripping irony and loaded with hatred of humankind for its failure to line up and obediently buy a load of Big Issues. I don't imagine it's easy standing in the cold selling a flimsy magazine, but to chastise people for failing to line up and buy it is frankly quite offensive. God knows, in Cambridge the chances are that half of them have already bought one just around the corner anyway.
You couldn't sell anything else like that - "please, Madam, before you walk away from that dress, consider that it at least looks better than the hideous clothes you're wearing" ... "oh, not going to buy that book after all, Sir? Is the writing too small or something?" ... "I'd recommend this washing product, because you smell."
And anyway, there are so many other options. There is a very charming man outside Great St Mary's who threatens to puncture my tyres whenever I lock up my bike without buying a Big Issue from him - that's the kind of creative approach to salesmanship I'd like to see more of. And I've never dared to say no to him.

Link: http://uncertaintydivision.org/diary/general/archives/000281.html

But now that we finished our filming and I have met the Big Issue Seller named Layton, not all of them are like this. Layton just wanted to get a job and get on with life. He doesn’t have any homeless friends, because he wanted to stay out of trouble from the ones that are in a bad crowd.