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To outsiders, these appeared to be blighted neighborhoods full of people permanently stuck at the bottom.

In a leafy suburb of south-east London, locals hope a simple solution is in sight to shut down noisy, dangerous, car racing that has blighted their lives for years.

Despite being from the Tigray region, which was blighted by a two-year civil war, he contributed when he could to the dam's construction ever since the plans were first announced in 2011.

But a succession of injuries blighted his time at Goodison Park.

Business owners in Surrey blighted by a massive sinkhole say they are fed up of people thinking their village is closed six months on.