David Cameron visited an outbuilding that housed migrants in west London [PA]

As the first coach loads of Bulgarians and Romanians roll into Britain, the specially-trained workers will use thermal imaging equipment to locate squalid accommodation in outbuildings.

Rising rents and overcrowding means the problem has reached epidemic proportions in London, where most foreigners are expected to stay.

Last night the capital was put on red alert hours before packed coaches arrive at Victoria station later today.

Council officials in Harrow in north-west London, which is already home to 5,000 Romanians, have found evidence of hundreds of migrants living in appalling conditions.

The authority is investigating 100 cases where desperate families pay rogue landlords 50 each a week to share a grubby mattress in a freezing outbuilding.

Council bosses vowed to prosecute those exploiting the most vulnerable in a borough where more than 4,000 people are waiting for social housing.

Tory council leader Susan Hall said: The rise in beds in sheds and overcrowding is now significant in parts of London and the likely influx [of eastern European migrants] is going to turn the pressure up on housing even further.

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Harrow has had to draft in hundreds of extra Romanian and Bulgarian interpreters as it prepares to be bombarded for information about benefits, housing and schools.

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Police are looking for thieves who raided community allotments in Bristol

THEY have been nurturing land to grow vegetables and help support a community farm with their rents. But allotment holders in Hartcliffe have found themselves the victims of thieves who broke into sheds and stole equipment worth thousands of pounds, including lawnmowers and strimmers.

Gardeners discovered the break-in when they arrived at the newly-renovated allotments at Hartcliffe Community Farm, in Lampton Avenue, on Tuesday. It is believed the thieves used screwdrivers or power tools to remove the doors from the sheds.

Farm volunteer Nigel Emery, 56, has been trying to contact all the allotment holders to inform them of the break-in and help assess what has been stolen.

Work on creating the 50 allotments on former grazing land at the farm started last January and a further 15 smaller plots are planned for the future.

The ten sheds targeted, some metal and some wood, were put up to give gardeners somewhere to store their equipment.

The allotments were created as a way of raising money for the community farm, with rents paying for improvements.

Mr Emery said: "I had a call on New Year's Eve to tell me there had been a break-in at the allotments.

"I went up there the next day to secure all the sheds and put the doors back on.

"Whoever was responsible knew what they were doing, as they unscrewed all the doors from the sheds and must have used a battery drill or electric screwdriver.

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The holiday season sheds light on the issue of poverty in Bergen County as many local communities donate warm clothing, toiletries and food to those in need.

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There is a constant demand for these essentials, said Rocco Mazza, communications coordinator for the Bergen County Department of Human Services.

The Tenafly Women's Club, is an organization aware of the need in the county.

The club sponsored a Wish Tree at Lowell Cleaners in Tenafly, where people donated new, warm clothing for the less fortunate, said Lois Anderson, first vice president of the club.

Starting around Thanksgiving people have dropped off scarves, socks, hats, mittens and underwear, among other essentials.

"We collect around the holidays because we know people will be thinking about it," said Anderson. "The Wish Tree is our way of making people aware of the problem."

Mazza said that there is a lack of awareness of the homeless population, in the county. With unemployment still at a high rate and insufficient salaries, the need is always there, he said.

The Wish Tree donations will be brought to the Bergen County Housing, Health and Human Services Center at the beginning of January.

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A dark hole of knowledge about strange lights seen during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake has been illuminated by new research out of North America.

Many witnesses recounted seeing white and blue lights in the sky before, during and after the quake.

Cameras near Lyttelton Road Tunnel and Princess Margaret Hospital were also reported to have caught blue flashes after the quake.

Researchers writing in the latest issue of Seismological Research Letters have found this phenomenon was caused by a type of earthquake in which one of the Earth's tectonic plates was pulled apart, creating a rift.

The tension during this process created an electronic charge, which turned into light when it reached the surface.

Earthquake lights have been seen worldwide, with some only at ground level and others being projected into the sky.

Pedestrians during a 2009 earthquake in the Italian city of L'Aquila reported fire flickering from the stone pavement of their town's historical city centre.

This was one of 65 of the best-documented earthquake light events in North America and Europe the researchers studied.

They found 97 per cent of the events happened during continental rift earthquakes, similar to the ones that hit Christchurch.

Those types of earthquakes made up just 5 per cent of all quakes, as most quakes occurred when two plates collided, not when one plate was pulled apart.

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