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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Nia Dalton

'We live between one of UK's busiest motorways - it's bleak and noisy but we're happy'

Their house is surrounded by speeding cars and lorries, lots of noise and plenty of wind, but farmers Paul Thorp and Jill Falkingham-Thorp wouldn't have it any other way.

The married couple, who proudly live on an 18th-century farmhouse sandwiched between two busy motorway lanes, lead a life that's different from most people's.

Every day, they wake up to more than 100,000 motorists crossing the M62, which runs on either side of their family home - that's slap bang in the middle of junctions 22 and 23.

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