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Jasmine Norden

Leeds mums get called 'scum' on 'drug-filled' council estate as they speak out on new BBC documentary

Two Leeds mums raising their kids on one of the city's most deprived estates have spoken out about their fears living on the breadline.

Debbie Furniss and Timnit Ghebremicael both live on the Lincoln Green estate near St James' Hospital in Leeds. Journalist Fergal Keane returned to the estate for his new BBC show 'Brave Britain' to see how communities were coping with the country's economic situation.

Lincoln Green was built in the 1960s in the hopes of getting low income families into housing, but Fergal described how it had instead become "haunted by poverty and drugs" when he visited in 2000. The area is within the top three per cent of the most deprived area in England.

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