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Glasgow Woman Fights Council Who Want To ‘Steal’ Her Home For Commonwealth Games Site

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Glasgow Council ‘Steals’ Working Class Woman’s Home For Commonwealth Games Village

MARGARET Jaconelli and her husband Jack don’t want to leave their two bedroom home in Ardenlea Street, Glasgow. They have lived there for 34 years. The powers that be say they must go because their tenement block is to be demolished to make way for facilities for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, specifically an athlete’s village.

Yep, they are going to build more flats. Why not just allow the locals to rent out their properties to the athletes?

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Posted: 18th, March 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (3)