Charity provides 534 beds for homeless

An emergency night shelter for the homeless has provided more than 500 bed spaces in the last year.

Graih - a charity based on Broadway in Douglas has been running a pilot programme since January 2019.

It aimed to uncover the extent of rough sleeping on the Island by offering the homeless a warm, safe, emergency shelter.

It says throughout the last 12 months it's offered 534 beds to 59 people.

The charity has confirmed its oldest guest was an 88 year-old woman and the youngest just 18, it also added over three-quarters of the guests at the Shelter were male.