SELF-styled anti-paedophile campaigner Mags Haney was jeered by a small crowd yesterday after she returned briefly to her flat in Stirling.
Ms Haney, 54, was driven away under police escort on Sunday evening, after a crowd of nearly 300 demanded her eviction.
Officials from Stirling Council accompanied Ms Haney as she returned to her former home in Huntly Crescent, Raploch, to collect belongings.
Last night the woman was preparing to spend another night in bed and breakfast accommodation along with five other adult members of her family and four children - while insisting she would return to the Raploch to stay.
Stirling Council, meanwhile, confirmed that it was talking to other Scottish local authorities in a bid to find a new home for the family which a sheriff criticised for ''bringing misery to their community over many years''.
Stirling Council leader Corrie McChord, who is also Mrs Haney's local councillor, said: ''I can only describe her mood as ebullient. She reckons that we owe her a secure tenancy. She insisted she would not be bullied out of Raploch.
''Whatever we do next has got to be with negotiation with the Haney family.''
Councillor McChord said the Haneys had been moved on the advice of the police because of the possibility of serious public disorder.
He said: ''I can understand there would be a reaction from whatever community they were moved into.The Haney family are a difficult family to keep under wraps.''
Councillor McChord admitted that the bill for the Haney family was running at nearly #250 a day, paid from council contingency funds.
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