FOR fifteen years homeless people across the UK have been selling The Big Issue on our streets. Reporter SERENA HOLLAND spent a day with a Big Issue vendor to see what his life is really like.
Paul Harris, 38, lives in Middlesbrough and has sold The Big Issue for around four years.
He arrives at his spot on Linthorpe Road every morning at 9am and spends the day trying to shift as many magazines as possible.
But selling magazines to the public does not always go well. Yesterday, within the first hour he had not sold anything at all, and for Paul – who lives hand to mouth – meant he had no money for his essentials.
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