Lined by chunky detached houses and neat front gardens shaded by silver birch, Westerdale Drive looks like the kind of place you’d move for a quiet life in suburbia.
For years, that’s exactly what it was, with well-to-do families fleeing the urban sprawl of Liverpool and Manchester for a tranquil existence on the street, which sits at the edge of the sleepy coastal village of Banks.
But any new residents thinking they had left the problems of inner-city life behind them will have been left bitterly disappointed.
While the cul-de-sac is mostly home to hardworking professionals and their children, they are forced to
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