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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
National
Stuart Sommerville

West Lothian ghost estate families burn fence at homes they fought to leave for 18 years

Families gathered in a Livingston garden on Saturday night to say goodbye to the homes they’ve been fighting to leave for the last 18 years.

It has been an emotional week for Kerry Mackintosh and her two kids, and for neighbours Joe and Isobel Baxter, who finally moved to temporary accommodation last weekend.

That move marked the end of along struggle which left them living in leaking, damp and freezing-cold homes after it emerged they had been built from a discredited concrete mix called Siporex.

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