A FAMOUS community of holiday hutters, who survive without mains electricity or proper plumbing just outside Glasgow, is close to making history as it moves to secure the £1.75 million needed to buy the site from a wealthy landowner.

The Carbeth hutters were given three years in 2010 to find the sum after an amicable agreement was reached with owner Allan Barns-Graham.

It followed years of strained relations between the principle landowner and the group.

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