This bus terminates here, please take all of your belongings with you,” announces the considerate, robotic voice of a woman. These words are said hundreds of times each night over London’s 51 night bus routes.

For some it is a helpful prompt, but for an increasing amount of the capital’s homeless, it’s a stark reminder of their desperate situation.

Here is the story of the number 25, the bus with the highest number of reported rough sleeping incidents in London.

Rough sleeping on London’s night buses has risen 121% in the past four years, according to an internal report by Transport for London seen exclusively.

Across the English capital, there were 213 driver incident reports between 1st November 2015 and 24th January 2016 – an increase from 97 over the same period in 2012/13.

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