THE only resident who has never entered into talks with the council about moving from her Redearth triangle' home today labelled the affair a disgrace'.

Jenette Wood, of Star Street, Darwen, said she was now resigned to having to move from the home she was born in 43 years ago.

Ten of the 11 remaining people in the triangle, that took in 150 homes, have started negotiations with the council.

More than 80 of the homes in the triangle have already been demolished because of safety fears and concerns that they could be vandalised or set alight Miss Wood, who works at a bakery, said: "They broke up a really nice community we had here. My family lived across the road from me.

"In the summer we used to sit outside drinking and chatting to each other."

The single mother, who lives with son Steven, 10, said she did not know what to do, but knew that she could not carry on living there.

"I feel sorry for my little lad because his friends have moved, so he has nobody to play with.

"Everything depends on what the council's next move is. I think I would need a lot of compensation.

"People should not have listened to them the council.

"People thought that because it was the council, they had to do what they said." She said the whole affair was a disgrace and demanded an apology from the council.

She responded angrily to Darwen's MP Janet Anderson's comments that the community should not now stand in the way of the academy being built on the land. "Maybe they should put the academy on top of her house and see how she feels," she added.

Simon Huggill, 56, of Sough Road, who represented residents at the inquiry in March, said: "To me the whole system is at fault because it has allowed the council to demolish homes before the inquiry has taken place.

"If the council has any honour it will now view the area only for housing like it has been for the last 250 years."

Dee Atherton, 49, has lived on Redearth Street for the past 14 years.

She said: "We have always been willing to co-operate with the council and all I have ever wanted is the market value for my house."

Mike, 62, and Dorothy, 61, Neal have lived in Redearth Street for 40 years. Mr Neal said: "We are very bitter about the way we have been treated but we will negotiate now."

Adrian Walker, 35, of Redearth Street, said: "I am really pleased that we hung in there but the council have gone out of their way to deceive us in the last three years.

"They have let the area go downhill so they could get the houses at rock bottom prices."