A couple who were cruelly trolled after moving into a "nightmare" home just metres away from a busy dual carriageway have won a battle with their local council. Jackie and James McCormack bought their detached three-bed home in Coleshill, Warwickshire, in February last year.
But the joy of their new £325,000 dream home was shortlived - as they quickly realised they would have to deal with constant noise, the rumbling of hundreds of vehicles and pollution from the 70mph A446, which is just six metres away from their home.
The busy A-road connects Sutton Coldfield to the M42 and constantly has cars and lorries thundering down it, past the McCormacks' home in James Munday Rise. The couple have been tormented by the traffic and the pollution that comes with it since they moved in, with Jackie, 60, complaining that their house shakes as vehicles rumble past and that they have to wear earplugs to bed as the traffic starts up at 5.30am.
