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As for those who doled out bursts of sudden violence to the men and women who bedded down under the decaying grandeur of Blackpool’s doorways and verandas – ‘This is not a human being,’ they must have told themselves as they climbed into their waiting taxis and slipped home to hot showers, warm beds and plates full of food, averting their eyes from the smoke that came from other people’s fires.
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