Three hundred squatters have been evicted, today, from a block of ex-council flats in Poplar they've been living in, partying in, having noisy sex - apparently - on the roof of... since last autumn.

A spokeswoman for the squatters who gave her name only as Radiana said: "Why are the council evicting us just before Christmas? We will not be able to find anywhere else to go before the holiday, so families and children now face spending the festive season homeless on the streets."

Tower Hamlets Council claim to have visited them - without partying or having sex on the roof - several times to make sure the squatters knew they were going to have to arrange alternative accommodation.

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