Glasgow has been ranked as the poorest city in the UK by researchers who have mapped out a "census atlas".
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Leader of the Scottish Socialists Tommy Sheridan described the north-south divide as a "damning indictment" of the failure of the executive to tackle poverty, when after five years Glasgow was "sinking into the poverty trap".
He said: "All we get from ministers like Margaret Curran are platitudes and buzzwords about tackling poverty when the research shows that the situation facing Scotland's poor is getting worse."

North-south gap growing, says report
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Tommy Sheridan, the Scottish Socialist party national convenor and MSP for Glasgow, said the findings were a "damning indictment" of the failure of the Scottish Executive to tackle poverty.
He said: "Scottish Executive ministers are now going to have to explain to the people of Scotland why it is that they have opposed abolishing the council tax, the introduction of free school meals and the abolishing of prescription charges when these are measures which would make a very real start in tackling chronic poverty in Scotland."