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Serco sponsors Manchester Pride float while evicting refugees in Scotland
SERCO came under fire for sponsoring a float at Manchester Pride this weekend at the same time it is pressing ahead with evicting refugees in Glasgow.
The outsourcing giant will hand over the Home Office contract for housing asylum-seekers to the Mears Group next month.
But it is still changing the locks of those whose applications have been rejected, even while they are still appealing.
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