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1. Under the clouds
I left home in Fife and went to live in Glasgow when I was eighteen. When I think of it now, the distance seems laughably small – forty miles, little more than an hour in the train – but the contrast between a village on the east coast and a city, Scotland’s largest, on the west coast was sharp and exciting. I had a bedsit in a dark street of better-class tenements, with a Polish delicatessen, a dance hall and a cinema just round the corner. Glasgow seemed an infinite place, never to be known completely no matter how many suburban bus terminals you reached or exploratory walks you made. It was 1963. The last trams had run the year before, but the city was still much its old self – smoke-blackened, run-down, Victorian, majestic, tipsy on beer and whisky on a Saturday night, hushed on a Sunday. More than a million people lived there then; forty years later, that figure had almost halved.
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New Era’s Emma Tennant with Paul Wright
Paul Wright, chairman of Lichfield Social Club FC, completed a climb of Mount Snowdon with a group of friends in aid of New Era.
The 40-year-old had originally set a fundraising goal of £1,000, but smashed the target thanks to the generosity of local residents.
Paul said he had organised the climb after being impressed by the support given by New Era to a friend who had suffered domestic abuse.
Paul Wright
“I was keen to not only raise some money to support their valuable work, but also to raise awareness about the support available for people affected by domestic abuse.