Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs bought the old Manchester stock exchange building to renovate and do up as a boutique hotel. On Sunday when homeless people started squatting in the building, rather than going straight to the courts to chuck them out, the former Manchester United players said the homeless group can stay there for the whole of winter.

“Thank you so much, you don’t understand what you have done for us,” Hall a housing and human rights activist said repeatedly to Neville.

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