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Wed 12 Dec 2008Belfast classed as ailing city poisoned by strife
Urban Decline:BELFAST WAS "an ailing city" in 1978, beset with violence, poverty, poor housing, unemployment and a declining population which was most marked in Protestant areas.
This government view of Belfast as a rapidly declining industrial city is expressed in confidential Stormont files released by the Public Record Office in Belfast.
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