A lost "shanty town" were many Merseysiders once lived became home to thousands of makeshift shacks, with entire families living in old buses without electricity or running water. Today ...

A forgotten "shanty town" where many people from Merseyside once lived was home to thousands of makeshift shacks, with whole families living in old buses without electricity or running water.

A 15-year-old resident who is living in the shanty town said the daily stress of having to provide for her family coupled with the fear of now being evicted and having her home torn down is scary.

A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on ... Elvira Valdemoro, a 58-year-old Manila resident and shop owner was devastated by the damage.

And now, what we're considering here, they've got a show called Shanty Town Lake. This is a show that ... isn't lulled into complacency by the same old same old. (The rhythms are abetted ...

said her five-year-old daughter could not go out to play and they felt like 'prisoners in our own home'. She said: 'It's a modern day slum - like a shanty town or a favela. 'My home is a container ...