Residents in Mansfield have come together to help a homeless man and his dog, hoping to find them dog-friendly accommodation as temperatures drop. John Laughton says he has been sleeping on the streets for almost a year.
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00:00It's just for me and Blue to get somewhere to stay, to live, cos it's not fair on him and it's not fair on me.
00:07You know, I don't want him to sit outside supermarkets. I'm not begging at all.
00:15People wish to give me things, and half the time they don't accept it anyway.
00:21People have been so generous around here, but there's obviously judgmental people.
00:26But I don't want to cause any bother to anyone.
00:30I mean, look at Blue. We've sat outside, we've wet through all our clothes, everything's wet through.
00:35What do we do?
00:37You know, it's hard for us to get somewhere to stay cos of Blue.
00:40So, I'm telling everyone to listen to this. Just me and Blue need somewhere to stay, like a room or anything.
00:45I want to get myself back on my feet, working.
00:48And I'm going to be doing work with Blue, so he'll be coming with me.
00:52I don't want to cause any bother to anyone.
00:55And there's been that many good people that's helped me.
00:59Some really good people that's helped me, have gone out of their way to help me.
01:03But also there's a lot of judgmental people that don't really know me, what I've gone through.
01:09Anxiety, depression, mental health. I used to think it was something you laughed at, but it's not, it's real.