HOMELESS people are being offered one-way train tickets by a number of local authorities, an investigation has found.

The 20 councils with the highest number of rough sleepers in England were asked — some through freedom of information requests — how many homeless people had been offered the ”reconnection” policy between 2012-17.

Of the 11 councils that responded, 10 said they had bought such tickets, the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show reported yesterday.