The concrete never had time to set before gaps started to appear in the latest offer to save Raac families in Aberdeen from their anguish.

Was it really ever a deal for victims in the first place or worth the paper on which it was written?

The Scottish Government and Aberdeen Council have been playing pass the parcel over responsibility for solving this housing crisis for a while.

Scores of families unwittingly bought houses blighted by sub-standard Raac concrete in the Torry area.

Now they face being moved out of their homes against their will and selling them off on the cheap – losing thousands of pounds.

Many think the so-called Raac deal sent by ministers to Aberdeen was lost in a consignment of smoke and mirrors.

They’re concerned that, just like Raac concrete substitute in their houses, it’s peppered with imperfections.

Reactions to it among property-owning victims of Raac sit somewhere between lukewarm and fizzing with rage.

They can hardly be blamed – after what they’ve been through – if the fine details of the financial proposal render it worthless as far as their hopes are concerned.

The fact that the Scottish Government and Aberdeen Council reached a somewhat convoluted yet apparently well-meaning solution might........

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