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Mike Cubbard is perched on a sofa in the bare-walled living room of his new house, supping a mug of tea, describing his pregnant wife being threatened with a beating, their children burned alive, and his mother raped.

It's hard to bate the smell of new paint you get with a visit from a distinguished visitor. Up and down the country for the last month, houses have been getting a once over for the aunts and uncles and the bouncy castle installers who descend on us all at Holy Communion time.