A rough sleeper tries to get some sleep during daylight hours in a pedestrian underpass under Park Lane.

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It’s virtually impossible to say how many rough sleepers there are in London. There are a lot of people trying to provide them with some support. Whenever contact is made, details are entered onto a database maintained by an online support network called CHAIN. According to CHAIN, 6437 people slept rough in London in 2012/3, an increase of 13 per cent on the previous year and a 62 per cent increase over two years. But then 20,000 people have been helped off the streets of London in the last ten years.

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Size: 4288px × 2848px
Location: Park Lane, Mayfair, London, England
Photo credit: © Richard Slater / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: asleep, daylight, despair, desperate, helpless, homeless, hopeless, lane, london, lonely, lying, man, mayfair, park, person, rough, sad, sleeper, sleeping, street, underpass