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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Stuart Sommerville & Charlie Duffield

Inside the bleak ghost town that lies abandoned 25 years after opening

The town of Livingston has silent streets, fly-tipped vacant sites and homes lying empty aside from overgrown gardens.

It's far from what was imagined in the 1960s, as out of the 240 original houses, just two dozen still stand.

The weather on the ghost estate is terrifying; sitting in a home surrounded by decaying and derelict buildings Kerry Mackintosh and her two children are scared of the high winds and rain.

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