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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
James Holt

Trapped in their homes and 'just used to the violence': Life on the streets where folk are scared to go out

On a May afternoon, families are walking their little ones home from school, as others natter to their neighbours from their front yard. These terraced streets are a community like any other.

But by night, residents living around Rosedale Road, a street which runs into an alley on the border of Fallowfield and Moss Side, say they feel 'trapped' in their own homes.

Last Sunday an 18-year-old man was rushed to hospital with serious injuries following a stabbing on Rosedale Road, the third time they've been called to an attack in the vicinity this year. Following the stabbing, officers cordoned off the alley section.

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