300 residents must move out.Byline: JAMES TAIT THREE hundred people will be forced from their homes amid safety fears, it was revealed yesterday. The residents will be moved from the Gilmerton area of Edinburgh over the next three months due to mining subsidence subsidence, lowering of a portion of the earth's crust. The subsidence of land areas over time has resulted in submergence by shallow seas (see oceans). Land subsidence can occur naturally or through human activity. . City chiefs have vowed to find them alternative accommodation. Council leader Donald Anderson Anderson, river, Canada Anderson, river, c.465 mi (750 km) long, rising in several lakes in N central Northwest Territories, Canada. It meanders north and west before receiving the Carnwath River and flowing north to Liverpool Bay, an arm of the Arctic said: "We want to reassure re·as·sure tr.v. re·as·sured, re·as·sur·ing, re·as·sures 1. To restore confidence to. 2. To assure again. 3. To reinsure. residents that there is no cause for alarm. "Our first concern is public safety. Despite the obvious difficulties with rehousing so many people we are organised to carry out this process in an orderly orderly /or·der·ly/ (or´der-le) an attendant in a hospital who works under the direction of a nurse. or·der·ly n. An attendant in a hospital. way." |
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