Homeless disabled people are increasingly being turned
away by cash-strapped councils as officials find reasons to avoid treating them
as a priority, according to lawyers mounting a potentially landmark legal
challenge. This week the Supreme Court will consider decisions by local
authorities to deny housing to a man with learning difficulties and
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), another with mental and physical health
problems and a drug addict who has been homeless since 2005. Read more on the
Independent website.
Country diary: The challenge of making a thatched roof pine-marten proof |
Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
Still, as a local told me, ‘you cannae blame them wanting somewhere to live’
That...
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