ROOF Blog

Shelter Scotland has demanded an urgent review into a registration scheme which is failing to protect tenants from bad landlords. Shelter says a minority of landlords taint the sector with Dickensian treatment of tenants and the charity estimates that one in four properties is still not covered by the scheme introduced three years ago. The report calls for an urgent review of the scheme to ensure it tackles problems such as withheld deposits, poor management, harassment and unlawful eviction.

A man due to be evicted from his home is believed to have blown up his home yesterday. Donald Joyce who was being evicted for harassment, intimidation and filming neighbours has not been seen since three explosions destroyed his home near Cambridge.