A mum has said she has resorted to using her laundry drying rack as a makeshift intruder alarm as groups of youths 'taking drugs' are descending on a housing estate after school.
Veronica Williams says she pushes the clothes horse against the door to alert her if someone breaks in.
Noisy teens are reportedly gathering on the Hodge Hill retirement complex in Birmingham every evening with residents struggling with 'boy racers, drug dealing and prostitution' in the nearby Tesco car park - in which a young man was attacked with acid and stabbed only last week.
