"It's bl**dy frustrating": 'Forgotten' village where 'you can't open the windows'

Dorothy Turton gestures towards the front window of the shop that's been in her family for three generations. "I've had triple glazing put in, but you can still hear the noise," she says.

A few feet away a constant stream of cars and HGVs thunder through the village of Hollingworth on the one of the busiest and most controversial roads in Greater Manchester. If everything had gone to plan, work on the long-awaited Mottram Bypass should have begun by now.

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But the £223m project, which has been 50 years in the making, faced yet another setback earlier this year after environmental charity the Campaign for Rural England lodged a legal challenge. Construction was due to start this spring, but a judicial review is now required, meaning a delay of 'several months'.

But in Hollingworth there's conflicting views on whether the by-pass will even make a difference. Around 25,000 vehicles a day, including 2,000 HGVs, travel through the small village.

Most of the cars and lorries are using the Woodhead and Snake Passes between Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire. And they get funnelled into a hectic junction close to homes, shops and a primary school at the western end of the village.

For residents who live there, the relentless traffic affects the houses they live in and the air they breathe.

Mrs Turton, 75, was born above her family's stationary shop on Market Street and raised her own two sons there. "I cannot have the door open because of the noise and dust," she said. "I have put some books outside for sale in aid of the church today, but they'll be covered in dust by the end of the day.

"Both my sons suffer from asthma and there's never been asthma in