Billington, Bedfordshire
The interior of the church is very simple; a small stained glass window in the west wall commemorates Edward Bradshaw, the first rector.One of the thatched cottages on top of the hill has the dubious honour of having featured on countless chocolate boxes and biscuit tins.[15] On 11 July 2012, four members from one family were convicted of keeping workers in a state of servitude and forcing them to perform unpaid work.The family, who lived on one of the three travellers' sites in Little Billington, were found to have controlled, exploited, verbally abused and beaten the men for financial gain.The men, many of them homeless and addicted to alcohol or other drugs, were recruited outside jobcentres or at soup kitchens, and were promised paid work, food and lodgings.They were routinely abused, underfed, and housed in littered, cramped sheds or horseboxes that were unfit for human habitation, with no heating or running water.
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