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Lady Freedom Returns

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Fri Jun 14, 2013, 12:44 PM Jun 2013

Cavemen of Manchester: Migrants from Eastern Europe live in squalor underground [View all]

By James Tozer
PUBLISHED: 04:52 EST, 12 June 2013 | UPDATED: 19:54 EST, 12 June 2013



Squalid: An Estonian huddles up in a cave near Stockport that is strewn with rubbish and filth. For him it is home.
LFR note on pic: Reason one ends up keeping rubbish near is to keep it hidden. Trash is a dead giveaway of your presence. If you got a good hiding place, better to hide signs like you see in pic there to.

According to homelessness charity Wellspring, Stockport’s sandstone caverns now hold up to four occupants at any one time.


Project manager Jonathan Billings said the number of people needing support has more than doubled to 140 in three years – with many from Eastern Europe.

He said some rough sleepers had fallen into the river or been targeted by arsonists.


‘Nobody wants to see people living in a cave,’ he said. The caves were reputedly dug by hand in the 17th century
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Read more and see pictures & video @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340116/Cavemen-Manchester-Migrants-Eastern-Europe-live-squalor-underground.html

LFR note: This kind of living is not just in Eastern Europe. We have people here in the United States that live in conditions like this... or worse.
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