Outreach crews working with the homeless say the current cold snap is putting lives on the line. Inner City Helping Homeless CEO Anthony Flynn is call calling on the Housing Minister to urgently mobilise the winter beds initiative. "The council haven't initiated a cold winter initiative. The cold winter initiative should be initiated from September on. "We've continuously asked for 150 beds to be put into the system over the last three months, we've requested the Minister do that.

Source: Evening echo October 29, 2018 07:41 UTC