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Boy, 10, forced to make 170-mile round trip to school from Manchester every day

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Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox A 10-year-old boy whose family were sent to a Travelodge in Manchester because of a dire shortage of social housing in Birmingham made it in to his primary school in Handsworth every day for two months - despite the 170-mile round trip.

He had to get up at 5am, Monday to Friday, for two months so his parents could drive him to Birmingham and he could join in lessons with his classmates, BirminghamLive reports. "It was very tiring," said Isaac, as he looks back on his daily journey. "I went to bed as soon as I got home at night then got up again the next day," he says. "We would wake up at 5am and leave at 6am in the morning.

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