Meet the Millionaire Tramps

New Statesman › August 19, 2009

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Pettit is a former probation officer who runs a scheme in the US, the Urban Plunge, in which students learn about life on the edge by sleeping rough; Last used to work for the homeless charity Centrepoint. The other volunteers comprised Thomas, all-year-old heir to a cooking oil empire; Charles, a 19-year-old farmer; and Clementine, the 21-year-old daughter of the newsreader Alastair Stewart.

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Meet the Millionaire Tramps

Meet the millionaire tramps

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