Lindsay Bruce
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166 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 27 May
Lindsay Bruce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the newspaper started reporting it back then, October 2023.
My involvement came, I'm part of the features team.
And so my involvement came in about August 2024.
And what happened there was I attended a church service in Torrey, the area that is most affected by RAC in our patch.
And in a room of about 50 people, there were three women who were all about to be displaced to elsewhere in the city because their council house had racking it.
And there were two families who were facing bankruptcy because their house had racking it.
Now, this is when my part of the journey started.
I pitched the idea that perhaps I could go and set up camp in Balnagask.
maybe over two days, work from a community centre, let people know I was going to be there and see if we could tell one or two stories.
Well, the reality is that from the second I set my computer up, I had a queue of people next to my desk and so it ended up being like a clinic, if you like, the way a politician would come and sit down and wait for people to come and talk.
So for two days, I had people, person after person coming in, telling me what was going on and saying, you should go and see Diane and Sandy down there.
They're going to lose their house.
And so I just had all these stories.
And overnight while I was there, the news went from there's rack in your home to we've voted to demolish your homes.
the council.
So in between times the council met and they voted that the best option to deal with WRAC was not to fix it, was not to remediate it, was to demolish these houses.
When the council decided that the best way to deal with the WRAC was to demolish, in essence, the whole of Balmagask, which is one housing estate, the council tenants were just moved, just moved.
The huge trauma of being moved.
The homeowners then were left with two options.
You can fix the rack in your house and that's between 20 and roughly 45,000 pounds per home to fix the rack because it means replacing the whole roof, not just the tiles, not just the structure, the whole thing.
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