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“The desperation that led Perry to these individuals was not met with help, as it should have been from the doctors,” she said, “but instead it was met with exploitation.”

Local MSP Angela Constance – who is also the Scottish government's justice secretary – met with residents to hear their concerns last Friday.

In 2002, unprecedented waves of protests demanded greater freedoms; they were met by a harsh crackdown.

Yet when you speak to him, he remains the humble young man I first met around 14 years ago at a charity event at Kingsfield in West Lothian.

That proposed levy has met universal condemnation in Mexico, where the cash transfers support tens of thousands of poor families and are a $64-billion-a-year economic linchpin.