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Byline: SUE REID
WITH pink lipstick and freshly brushed hair, an attractive woman queuesto buy a cup of coffee at a restaurant overlooking the departure hall ofBritain's biggest and busiest airport. It is just before 7am, and thepassengers ahead of her at Costa will soon be rushing to catch their flightsall over the world. Yet Eram Dar has no passport and no ticket. What's more,she isn't in a hurry to go anywhere.
Eram's home is Heathrow's Terminal One. Over the past year and a half, she haslived at the airport with all her possessions in a blue canvas bag. Today, sheplans to do a bit of window shopping at the airport's stores and, perhaps, buya bowl of pasta for lunch. She often finds a discarded newspaper and reads itto while away the day. .
As night falls, she will sleep on the floor between an American Expresscurrency exchange booth and a Wall's ice-cream vending machine on a corridorthat leads to Terminal One from the underground.
She says simply and in a middle-class English accent: 'Living at Heathrow islike being in a good hotel. It is warm, very clean and you don't get bothered.I think I'm very lucky to be here.
'I sleep in the same spot every night, if another person hasn't grabbed itfirst. Sometimes the airport passengers peer down at me as they walk by.
The night cleaners mop and brush around me. I just close my eyes and put myscarf over my head to block them all out.' Eram is one of an astonishing numberof people who, it was revealed this week, live at Heathrow. It is a scenarioreminiscent of Stephen Spielberg's film, The Terminal, which starred...
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