Homeless couple pleads for help

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Homeless couple pleads for help

Mandeville, Manchester : For approximately one year and eight months, Devon ‘Biggs’ Francis says that the only dwelling place he and his wife Fay have had is a spot under trees just off the Caledonia Road in Mandeville. Retrofitted with cardboard...

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