So after I told Ann that we could negotiate a better compensation package for her food-water-shelter offer, I asked her to tell me the top five reasons she should have one foot out the door and pointed in the direction of her 16-year-old self.

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Mr Cowan, a former water quality manager who was 61 at the time, raised an action seeking compensation at the Court of Session in Edinburgh against the Hopetoun House Preservation Trust and trustees including the Marquess of Linlithgow.

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