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A young man who was talked down off the edge of a bridge over the M8 by heroic strangers says he has been given "a second chance at life". ‌

Robert Hampson, from Glasgow , was about to take his own life when big-hearted strangers intervened, talking him out of jumping from a footbridge over the motorway . ‌

The 22-year-old, who grew up in care and suffered a traumatic childhood of abuse , felt he had nowhere to turn until they heard what he had to say. ‌

He told Glasgow Live : "I just felt so low, to the point where I was just like 'I can't do this anymore'. And that's when I went over the railing at the bridge.

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"When I was standing up there, a few members of the public came up and just started talking to me, and had quite a long chat. They w

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