Lindsay Bruce
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166 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 27 May
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There was no sense of the injustice and the,
the trauma that these people were going through and so for me it was how can I tell story after story after story in a way that people will will see themselves in it and so it was and honestly that was easy when I spoke to these people there was 80 odd year old Charlie Walker an army veteran who was crying in his chair next to the empty chair because his wife had just died wondering if he's going to be homeless you know that I don't need to write that in any dramatic way for that to be absolutely harrowing
And it was story after story.
The very first couple that I interviewed were George and Sheila MacDonald.
And George and Sheila told the story of when they went to the council meeting and they were talking about whether they would demolish their houses, politicians were scrolling on their phones.
And I saw this, I was in the press gallery, scrolling on their phones and, you know, doing online shopping as they were making the decision whether 138 homeowners were going to lose everything.
And they were so traumatised by this.
Sheila told me that, you know, the stress of this situation, she just wishes she hadn't retired.
Two weeks after this, I was walking my dog in Torrey.
I made a point of going through Torrey at least once a week so that I could watch the decline and, you know, what was happening and then go back to the council and hold them to account again.
And I was walking my dogs through Torrey when my phone rang and it was George to tell me Sheila had died.
Two weeks after we put her on a poster, two weeks after that very first interview.
And he was much more gracious than I was, but for me, I worried that that was going to be the first of many people who were just under such protracted, never-ending stress that this crisis was going to be the end of them, really.
And so, you know, I just kept telling the stories.
The stories were there.
I just kept finding them, kept telling them, kept calling politicians to account, asking the difficult questions and using FOIs to find information and just keep going so that we could try and come at this from every single angle until we got a win.
Yeah, so I was at home one afternoon.
We sometimes work from home.
And my phone was going off the hook.
And I thought, oh, it's just somebody from work.
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