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'I'm after some socks': The simple plea from a rough sleeper braving the coldest night of 2023 on Manchester's streets
09.03.2023 - 22:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
It's an unusual day in March. Mancunians are used to the weather gods delivering plagues of unseasonal cold, but today (March 9) is really taking the biscuit.
There's snow falling - sort of. It's not fluffy flakes this time, it's sticky sleet which coats the city's pavements and melts just as quickly. Everything seems to be running relatively smoothly, too - trains are working as well as they normally do in the north, buses are grumbling their way up Portland Street, and taxis are blaring horns across Deansgate.
But there are signs that the freeze is biting. Old ladies are shuffling past high street stores, but it's too cold to spare a minute and stop for some window-shopping.
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Men in sharp suits and big coats are hustling around meeting to meeting, trying in vain to get their numb fingers to manipulate their phone keyboards. Staff in high-viz clothing have accessorised with wooly hats, scarves, and gloves.
In the middle of this business is Omer Bin Saleh. And he just wants something very simple.
“I am after a good pair of quality socks,” he tells the Manchester Evening News.
He is sat by a bin on the approach to Piccadilly Station as the city begins to wake up on Thursday morning. Yesterday was the coldest day of 2023 so far, with the mercury dropping to -3C.
By the time Omer is chatting, it’s a slightly more palatable 2C — but with the sleet in the air, he’s clutching an umbrella. He has been homeless for ‘most of my life’, he says, and only came to Britain ‘a couple of months ago’ after a spell of sleeping rough in Europe.
When asked why he came to the UK, he replies: “The quality of life, even on the streets, is
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