'Frightened to open the door': Wolverhampton residents 'barricaded' in by fly infestation
Residents living in a block of flats in Wolverhampton are "frightened to open the front door" as a result of an infestation of flies.
Those living in Vauxhall House, which is part of the Vauxhall Estate, first noticed the problem last week, with flies said to be gathering on the ceiling in the corridor leading up to the rubbish chute.
The flies have reportedly been spotted on the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of the building, with residents now said to be feeling as though they are "barricaded" in their homes as a result.
Martin Cartwright, who chairs the Vauxhall Residents Association, said: "Last Wednesday morning, one of the residents who is an 88-year-old woman came out of her front door to put some rubbish down the rubbish chute and the whole ceiling on the corridor was covered with flies.
"They started spraying them and without a word of a lie, there must have been a couple hundred of them on the floor and they were still coming – this has been the cycle of things day-to-day.
