Meet the homeless man known as 'mayor of tent city' in Wellingborough

A 65-year-old has told how he spent three months living in a tent because he had nowhere else to go.

Mervyn Painton lived in one of a small number of tents in an area of countryside near Wellingborough in Northamptonshire.

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1 October 2017