"It's horrendous, there's nothing for the kids and there is no way can sell our houses because of the boarded up property" said resident Mary Mitchell.

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The work, in collaboration with KuDOS Pharmaceuticals, was funded by Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Cancer Research UK, The Wellcome Trust and the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Foundation.

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"Life in Britain: Using millennial Census data to understand poverty, inequality and place" by Ben Wheeler, Mary Shaw, Richard Mitchell and Danny Dorling is published by the Policy Press.

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