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		</div><p>An estimated 60,000 people – including Hollywood A-listers – are taking part in a charity sleep-out as a fundraiser to end homelessness went global.</p>
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<p>Organisers of the World’s Big Sleep Out, which began on a small scale in Edinburgh in 2016, said 52 cities are participating in this year’s event, from Brisbane to Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Fundraisers in London’s Trafalgar Square are being treated to a bedtime story by Dame Helen Mirren, while Will Smith will do the honours in New York’s Times Square.</p>
<figure id="attachment_145859" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-145859" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-145859" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/10CA0898-53BE-4264-940C-B9C3517500FD.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-145859" class="wp-caption-text">Brian Cox addressed participants in Edinburgh</figcaption></figure>
<p>As well as raising funds, the event encourages people to reflect on the plight of the homeless and displaced, and this year it teamed up with Unicef and the Malala Fund.</p>
<p>Actor Brian Cox opened the sleep-out in Edinburgh’s West Princes Street Gardens, saying the time has come to address homelessness.</p>
<p>He told the PA news agency: “It has gone on long enough. We have just accepted these norms which shouldn’t be accepted.</p>
<p>“I remember Cardboard City in Waterloo, I used to rehearse there, at the National Theatre, I walked past there and it would be a few people sleeping out, but by the time of the end of my rehearsals it was about 250.</p>
<p>“It’s just accepted as a norm, and it’s worldwide – it’s an example of worldwide lack of care that we’ve allowed this situation to get out of hand.</p>
<p>“It has to be curbed, I don’t think you’ll ever get rid of it but it has to be curbed.”</p>
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<p>The Dundee-born actor said of his home city: “Dundee has elements of it. The problem in Dundee has been, of course, people have been ignored for too long, and it’s the rise of addiction, drugs addiction.</p>
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