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Dear Editor, The Vagrancy Act of 1824 referred to by Adam Webb in last week’s IW Observer, criminalised rough sleeping…

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Dear Editor, The sad case of the murder in Southampton of the 18-year-old, Henry Nowak, is a further indication that…

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