Migrant shanty town returns to West End: Rough sleepers from Eastern Europe set up camp next to London's famous Marble Arch and take to streets to beg and pickpocket tourists

A dozen people lounge on dirty benches at the corner of Park Lane and Oxford Street - in the shadow of Marble Arch - surrounded by shopping trollies stacked with bulging bin bags.


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