The Unlikely Friendship That Crosses the Great Divide Sheila Hamilton On How a Pollok Mum Made Friends with an Algerian Lawyer Sheila Hamilton On How a Pollok Mum Made Friends with an Algerian Lawyer Showbiz Extra

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THEY call themselves the Odd Couple. And so they are. Anne-Marie Smith is a single mum who has lived in Pollok all her life and who is struggling to bring up three kids alone on benefits.

Ahlam Souidi is an asylum seeker from Algeria, a lawyer and mother of two, who was forced to flee for her life, leaving behind her job and comfortable home.

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The Unlikely Friendship That Crosses the Great Divide Sheila Hamilton On How a Pollok Mum Made Friends with an Algerian Lawyer Sheila Hamilton On How a Pollok Mum Made Friends with an Algerian Lawyer Showbiz Extra

In another time, another place, another life, they'd never have met. . . and if they had, they'd have had nothing in common.

There was prejudice on both sides. "I thought all single mothers smoked and drank and neglected their children, " confesses Ahlam.

"And I thought asylum seekers were taking things t...

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