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GLASGOW is preparing for the Commonwealth Games with organisers making sure the city is ready to host the prestigious event next summer.

THOUSANDS of us use them every day but we rarely give them any thought.

EVERYONE remembers their struggles the day snowstorms brought Central Scotland to a standstill in December 2010.

AS someone who, before the era of housing benefit, lived for nearly 37 years with my husband and two children in two, small rooms of an overcrowded flat (sharing kitchen and bathroom) and later in a two-bedroom council flat, I find the current furore about the 'bedroom tax' unjustified.