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Worried residents voiced their concerns after hearing the place they call home is to be demolished.

And they have been left in the dark, still not knowing where they will be sent.

Residents said a major worry was the prospect of being torn apart from friends and neighbours.

And some pensioners are concerned that by the time all this hassle is over and the new flats are built, they will be dead.

William Dempsey, 58.

I’m scunnered. I have lived in the flats for three years and I love them. Inside they are brilliant, plenty of room and everything – it’s ideal.

I’m 12 floors up and the views are unbelievable. Loads of us are scunnered they are coming down.

And we still don’t know where we’ll be going. But I guess half of them will not be here when the newbuild comes because it’s mostly old folk.

Allan Coughtrie, 86

They’re suppose to be pulling them down and building new flats but they’ve just put new doors in all these – at £ 900 a fire door.

Then they decide to pull them down, it doesn’t make any sense to me.

But I’m not bothered one way or another. I’ll be going to my son Scott’s house now. He’s building a bit on to the back of his house for me.

Jackson Anderson, 82

I’ve been here nineteen years and I thought I’d spend the rest of my days here. But there’s a chance I could do yet, who knows how long it will take them. I really don’t want to move far.

It’s a shame, they’ve only been up 50 years. Where else would you get the flats the way they are, the views – they are beautiful. You never get any hassle.

And I don’t have to use my bus pass, I’m two minutes from the town centre.