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Worrying pictures show rough sleepers’ tents perilously pitched just inches from a busy dual carriageway. Charity bosses say the use of the dangerous location along the edge of Canterbury’s ring-road is a sign of how people are getting more desperate as homelessness increases. Visible from the city wall and the bridge to Canterbury East railway station, the encampment consists of a row of tents, some abandoned and some in use. Canterbury City Council says it is working with local charities to help those at the site, but it is “unable to force people into accommodation”. The array of tents at t…

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