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The first of the blocks was demolished in 2012, and a second followed in 2013.

HUNDREDS of families are set to be stranded overnight after the botched demolition of the Red Road flats.

It was originally hoped that the demolition of the flats would feature in the opening ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014 – but the plans were scrapped due to safety fears.

Around 1,000 households were forced to leave their homes during the demolition, with a few residents anxious about damage to homes within the exclusion zone.

It will take up to two years for the rubble to be cleared with the bottom 10 stories of two of the buildings to be brought down at a later stage following the controlled explosions.

Built in the mid-1960s to tackle the city’s housing crisis, the flats were once the tallest residential structures in Europe, providing accommodation for nearly 5,000 people.

The tower blocks came down as part of Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) plans to regenerate the Balornock and Barmulloch areas.

Tina Suffredini, speaking to BBC Radio Scotland, refused to leave her house and criticised the decision to demolish all six blocks at once.