Five Aims to Improve Life in Glasgow - and Save Current Affairs

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JUSTIN Ryan and Colin McAllister - those camp interior decorators known for theatrical fits - suddenly have a more serious job to do.

The duo are renovating a Glasgow council block as part of a TV experiment to see whether environment really does influence the way people behave. The year-long project, The Estate, likely to be shown at the end of this year, draws on the inspiration of New York's zero- tolerance project, which held that even allowing broken windows to remain unfixed was a precursor to more serious social problems.

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Five Aims to Improve Life in Glasgow - and Save Current Affairs

For Dan Chambers, Five's director of programmes, the new show is part of the network's twin-track approach for getting current affairs in front of TV viewers. According t...

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