Kerrycroy Avenue RESIDENTS who repeatedly raised asbestos fears with housing bosses are demanding an apology as work begins four years later to remove the potentially dangerous substance from properties. Homeowners factored by the soon-to-be-defunct Thistle Housing Association first raised concerns about asbestos in roof spaces of flats in 2016. They were repeatedly told no asbestos was present. At one point the factor even fielded a story that tiles feared to be asbestos were actually parts of gas fires that had been dumped in attics - but no evidence of gas fires was ever found. Finally, as we told in August 2019, the Scottish Housing Regulator issued a damning report saying Thistle HA had “provided inaccurate information about its management of asbestos”.