Facebook Big Issue boost

A tramp has seen his sales of the Big Issue soar after a customer set up a page for him on Facebook.

The 'Croydon Big Issue Man Appreciation Club' now has more than 600 members on the social networking site and his sales figures are up 400%.

The 35-year-old says he was selling just seven or eight copies per day but can now shift up-to 30 issues of the newspaper published on behalf of and sold by homeless people.