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London's vulnerable families will not benefit from being forced to move north | Lynsey Hanley

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 (on April 24, 2012)
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It's ludicrous to make Newham council shift people on benefits to areas where there is no work

Is this the beginning of an exodus of all but the highest paid from London? Is its status as a..


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