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Homeless given one-way train tickets
A number of councils in England are regularly buying one-way train tickets for homeless people out of their area, the Victoria Derbyshire show has found.
Some spent more than 拢1,000 a year on fares and charity Homeless Link called the scale "worrying".
The strategy can be used to reconnect rough sleepers with family, but one man said he was offered a ticket to a city he had never been to before.
Our reporter Anna Collinson has been to meet rough sleepers in Bournemouth.
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