Woman in despair over noise outside her home... and has to wear ear plugs to get to sleep

A woman has been left furious after being 'kept up at night' due to a loud manhole 'constantly clanging' outside her house.

Christine Rudman, 67, who has been living in her bungalow that backs onto the busy Denton Road for three years, has had enough of the racket caused by cars driving over a 'loose' manhole in the middle of a junction.

Videos shared with the M.E.N reveal the loud banging noise caused by cars, vans and lorries driving over the grid, at the crossroads of Denton Road, Shepley Road and Stamford Road, in Audenshaw.

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Furious Christine, who reported the issue to Tameside Council on their online highways portal back in June, says the noise is driving her 'crazy' and forced her to sleep with earplugs in or even leave the house to escape the disturbance.

She said: "I first noticed it getting bad when it was clanging a lot more in April. In May, as it got warmer, I was opening my windows and noticed it a lot more.

"I first went and took photographs and sent them to United Utilities as there's a serial number on the grid lid, thinking it would help. They told me it was nothing to do with them and to contact the council.

"I gave up, started again and gave up again. It's driving me crazy. I can't even sit out the front of my bungalow because I can hear it there. My bedroom window is no more than 20 yards away from it."

It is at rush hour that Christine says the noise is the worst due to the volume of traffic, but continues late into the night and first thing every morning. In her complaint to the council she said it is 'getting worse' and wakes her up 'several times a night'.

United Utilities said that they went to