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8th August 2008: Businessman Tony Gordon had his crooked fingers in several pies and one of them was property development. In the summer of 2008 one of his projects was the demolition of the old houses on Nightingale Terrace and their replacement with set of more modern buildings. One old man stood in his way who had lived at 23 Nightingale Terrace for some forty years and refused to leave. Tony tried a mixture of threats and financial inducements with him, offering him £2,000 for vacant possession but the cap-wearing elderly pensioner refused to back down. A furious Tony stormed out and the old man had, for the moment won. Minus one kidney, forty years older and wheezy of breath, Jed Stone was back...
 * For more information see Episode 6877 (8th August 2008).