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Glasgow’s Red Road flats demolition fails

An attempt to bring down Glasgow's landmark Red Road flat blocks hasn't quite gone to plan.

The apartment blocks built in the 1960s were a towering presence on the Glasgow skyline for many years but had been reduced to looking worn, ugly and unmaintained.

The apartment blocks built in the 1960s were a towering presence on the Glasgow skyline for many years but had been reduced to looking worn, ugly and unmaintained.
The apartment blocks built in the 1960s were a towering presence on the Glasgow skyline for many years but had been reduced to looking worn, ugly and unmaintained.

When the Red Road flats were constructed in Glasgow's north-east they were the pride of the city, an answer to its chronic slum housing problems.

It had more recently housed those who have nowhere else to go, asylum seekers, refugees and men who have had their right to remain in the UK revoked after serving time in prison.

Crowds watched on over the weekend as demolition experts failed to bring down two of the six multi-storey flats with a single blow.
Crowds watched on over the weekend as demolition experts failed to bring down two of the six multi-storey flats with a single blow.

Crowds watched on over the weekend as demolition experts failed to bring down two of the six multi-storey flats with a single blow.

This means that families who live in the surrounding area are stranded until the remaining 10 storeys of blocks are demolished using machinery at a later stage.

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