A "rancid" stench, brazen dealers peddling drugs in plain sight and a broken front door for six months - that has become the sad reality of life for people living in a north Manchester tower block.
Plagued by drug users "shooting up" outside their flats and machete-wielding gangs running loose outside, fed-up tenants in Kingsbridge Court, Harpurhey, say they no longer feel safe in their own homes.
"They are dealing outside the building on an every day basis," said David Gardner, who has called Kingsbridge Court home for more than two decades. "Some of the tenants have been accosted trying to run back from the shops."
