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by Bethany Rielly
News Reporter
A GROUP of asylum-seekers at an ex-army camp in Kent have vowed to sleep outside in sub-zero temperatures until the Home Office moves them to more suitable accommodation.
Five residents launched the desperate action on Friday in protest against long delays in processing their asylum claims and the squalid conditions at Napier Barracks, Folkestone.
It came as the site, which has been used as a temporary facility to hold up to 400 men since September, was hit by another apparent suicide attempt.
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