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Jacob Phillips

London council ordered to pay £50,000 to woman forced to live in mouldy home

A London council has been ordered to pay over £50,000 in damages to a woman who was forced to live in a council home "with intolerable living conditions".

Hammersmith and Fulham Council "chose to ignore" the woman's struggles with leaks, damp, mould, cracked walls and ceilings, as well as defective doors and windows, her law firm Hodge, Jones & Allen has said.

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