I don't know why anyone would be expected to live in these conditions...

TAYLOR MURRAY

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A Paisley woman forced to wash herself at a basin in the dark says concerns about her house of horrors are "falling on deaf ears".

Linda Benjamin has lived in her George Court Renfrewshire Council flat for less than two years and is battling to get dampness and leaks fixed.

Water - which has been pouring through the lights and running down the walls - is coming from a private let above.

And despite reporting problems back in December 2024, Linda says little has been done to rectify the situation.

She has even had to empty a bucket collecting water every two hours.

According to the 59-year-old, the most progress she saw was when lights were removed and the electricity was turned off by contractors-leaving Linda, who has a stomabagand five hernias, to wash and change in the dark for weeks.

"It was unacceptable," Linda told the Express, "and they just basically kept passing me around different departments saying it wasn't their issue.

"Even the housing officer came out said, 'oh, we can't have this, can we?! I said, 'well, would you like to live with that?'