'The busiest road in the North is practically at the end of our garden'
If you thought getting stuck in one of the M62's numerous traffic jams was bad enough, imagine living right next door to it. That's the reality for the residents of one hamlet who live just 30 metres from one of the busiest motorways in the country.
"When it's wet it sounds like you're on the seafront and when it's summer we have to shut the windows because of the dust." Barrie and Gill Fulton thought they'd be getting away from the noise of planes taking off and landing when they jumped ship to Longden End in the nearby Pennines, only for the motorway to be built a decade later. Now, the busiest road in the North is practically at the end of their garden.Despite the huge motorway just yards from the couple's door, their house suffers with terrible internet connection, with Mrs Fulton admitting, 'you can't watch Netflix'.
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