'I'm having to walk to Tesco to go to the toilet': Entire block of flats left without water for 30 hours

A block of flats in Salford has been left without water for 30 hours - resulting in one resident walking all the way to a nearby Tesco to go to the toilet.

A letter sent to residents of Malus Court in Pendleton explained that the water supply needed to be turned off across the entire block in order to repair a water leak.

Another advised that people 'fill up any pots, pans and buckets available' and that they could use this - alongside bottled water provided - to flush their toilets.

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It also said that one toilet would be available in a community room at a neighbouring block of flats - Hornbeam.

But not all residents are happy about what has been arranged.

Graeme Langton, who has nicknamed the issue 'watergate', is chose to venture beyond the Pendleton flats to go to the toilet.

He said he didn't want to be standing over his toilet pouring water into it - and that it's unsafe and unsanitary - to use the toilet in Hornbeam.

"I'm having to walk to Tesco to go to the toilet," he said.

"You've got to walk under scaffolding. If it was a building site you'd have to have a hard hat on. It's not safe. I don't feel safe walking under the scaffolding. They think one toilet is enough for 84 flats, it's stupid.

"Do you want me to sit on a toilet after 100 residents have used it? There's a health issue there," he said.

Graeme went on to claim that there is 'probably no one' using the toilet in Hornbeam.

"They're probably all using cafes and Tesco like me," he said.

But Graeme knows that other residents will have it worse.

"There are people here who are bedbound and frail and won't even be able to carry a pot of water to put it down the