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Theresa Derby was the final resident to leave the flats and she might also be one of the last to recover from the situation’s traumatic side-effects.
This would be understandable. Theresa, 54, spent 30 years at 237e Blackness Road and fought tooth and nail both to buy her property and to stop it being demolished.
She also loved living there and when forced to leave felt she had been unfairly treated by Dundee City Council.
Theresa’s departure on February 23 2020 marked the final day of around 130 years of continuous habitation in the flats.
“I passed the flats the other day as they were being demolished and it brought a tear to my eye to see it like that,” Theresa says.
'Seeing it come down pulls at the heart strings': Remembering the Blackness Road tenements
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More 20mph zones on the horizon in Dundee
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More 20mph zones are on the horizon in Dundee.
More 20mph zones across could be on the horizon in Dundee after a study found the widespread introduction of slower driving speeds elsewhere has led to fewer accidents.
Councillor Mark Flynn, Dundee City Council’s city development convener, has said the council are “preparing a programme” to roll out more 20mph zones after the success of those introduced during lockdown.
Specific locations have yet to be disclosed.
The announcement comes after a study found the widespread adoption of 20mph on residential roads has resulted in fewer accidents in Edinburgh, according to researchers from universities in St Andrews, Edinburgh, East Anglia and Cambridge.
Updated: January 13, 2021, 11:19 am
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An Xplore bus in Dundee.
The temporary reinstatement of an axed West End bus service has been hailed as “excellent” news.
But it has sparked calls for a permanent solution to ensure the passengers who use the Xplore 4 are not cut adrift in the long term.
The service which was altered to replace some of the stops served by the 204, was due to be scrapped this month.
The news that it will be reintroduced comes less than two weeks before the roll-out of one of Dundee’s biggest bus service changes in the past 70 years, as Xplore looks to adapt beyond the pandemic.
by Courier Readers December 19 2020, 8.25am
Sir, – During First Minister’s Questions I was struck by what wasn’t said regarding Scotland’s drug deaths.
Despite Ruth Davidson and Richard Leonard trying to politicise what is a national disgrace, and Nicola Sturgeon admitting mistakes, not one of them mentioned the individual responsibility of the addicts.
Drug addicts are not forced to take drugs. They take them knowingly and willingly with little regard for themselves or their friends and families.
We, as a society then encourage them by giving them a substitute in the shape of Methadone, then, when they do overdose, save them by administering Naloxone, sending the message that it’s OK to OD because we’ll bail you out. That money would be better spent elsewhere.
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