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We remember Blair's promise: 'no hope' estate's verdict on Labour

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Funding cuts will stop our 2012 dreams in their tracks

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'Notorious' estate axes PR

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'Hell' estate from Blair poverty campaign gets £2.4bn revamp

14.08.08
One of London's worst-designed and most crime-ridden council estates is to be transformed over the next 16 years at a cost of £2.4billion... more

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