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NewsColony Dozens of homeless people are sleeping at London’s deserted Heathrow airport during coronavirus Around 30 homeless people have been sleeping at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 because their immigration status has left them unable to claim benefits – including emergency accommodation – during the coronavirus pandemic.  One of the rough sleepers, a professional woman in her 40s from west Africa, told The Guardian the number of homeless people at the airport had doubled since October. She said councils ‘refused’ to offer shelter to around 30 rough sleepers at the airport in the London Borough of Hillingdon. One of the rough sleepers at Heathrow Airport, a professional woman in her 40s from west Africa, told The Guardian the number of homeless people at the airport had doubled since October (file image) ‘I first started sleeping at the airport last October when I lost my accommodation,’ she said. ‘There were 10-15 of us then. Now we have grown to about 30.’ She reveal...