Soup kitchens in city centres are facing an unprecedented demand for food hand-outs despite sub-zero temperatures and emergency lockdown measures to stem the homelessness crisis.
Alarming pictures taken on Monday in Glasgow - where temperatures plummeted to -14C - showed more than 200 people standing patiently in line during a blizzard for hot food.
Donated packages being given out by the Kindness Homeless Street Team charity became coated in snow as they waited. There were similar scenes in London a few days before when the Mirror spent several hours talking to rough sleepers at the capital’s busiest street kitchen.
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