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'Poverty is everybody's problem ... we want people to accept that'

Scotland�s first Poverty Truth Commission is to be used in Glasgow to help tell the city�s own story of social divide � that between rich and poor.

It has its roots in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of post-apartheid South Africa, when victims of the bloody and cruel regime were encouraged to tell their stories.