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Tesco homeless spikes photographer calls People’s Assembly day protest

A photographer whose snap of “anti-homeless spikes” outside a London Tesco launched a mass campaign announced plans yesterday for a protest at the site. 

Journalist Joshua Preston shone a light on sharp metal studs outside Tesco stores designed to stop homeless people from bedding down. 

Thousands of people shared his picture on social media amid a wave of anger over the previously unnoticed attack on Britain’s poorest. 

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