76 year old Shirley Butler will leave her three-bedroom home of 51 years on Thursday and the house her three children grew up in will soon be a pile of rubble like those around it. Butler is the longest and last resident in Jebson Place and in the past three years has watched her neighbours slowly move out and their properties boarded up.
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