homeswap continued...

Last week a story I broke - and which was followed up by a number of other media outlets - caused something of a rumpus at Salford City Council. In fact, I've rarely known a story to cause such a fuss.
Pensioners Pat and Walter Gowenlock are upset that their terraced home, which they left - along with years of treasured memories - under plans for its demolition, has been given a stay of execution and sold to someone else.
They see themselves as human fallout of the wholesale - and desperately needed - regeneration of their neighbourhood, Langworthy.
They say they weren't offered the property back.
The local authority says they were - but chose to decline the offer - and took the step of writing a letter to the Manchester Evening News to put forward that claim.
Two weeks on from the original article, and the issue continues to run.
Mrs Gowenlock has herself written to the paper to set the record straight, and to tell Salford Council that while they are in their seventies, she and her husband are certainly "not senile."