Manchester building's 'anti-homeless' spikes covered with cushions

A mother incensed at the installation of anti-homeless metal spikes outside a Manchester building has hit out at the owner - with cushions.

Jennie Platt, from Prestwich, got "a bee in her bonnet" after reading about the spikes on Marsden Street in the Manchester Evening News., external

She recruited her sons George, 11, and Sam, 10, and they "piled down to Primark" to buy cushions to cover them.

"This is not the Mancunian thing, it's not how we treat people," she said.

The spikes were later removed by the company which manages the building.