RESIDENTS of a Bradford village are furious that a burned out car sat on a busy road for more than two weeks.

The eyesore shell of a red Ford Fiesta was in High Street, Queensbury, since being destroyed by fire at about 12.30am on March 28 - leaving some people to brand the area as like something out of TV show Shameless.

Many residents said they complained to police and Bradford Council, claiming that loose metal and smashed glass was a danger to passers-by, particularly young children.

But they were frustrated, with some suggesting the authorities and the car owner were not taking responsibility.

After the Telegraph a & Argus got involved, police said they would organise the removal of the car and the Council's neighbourhoods team also said it was working to get the car removed.

This morning it was loaded on to a removal truck and taken away, much to the delight of Councillor Paul Cromie (Queensbury, Ind).

He said: "I am very pleased to see it gone. Our ears have been bleeding these last three weeks with phone calls about it."

A police spokesman last night said the car was reported to them last Wednesday morning. An officer visited the scene and found the owner, who promised to arrange removal of the car.

"We were under the impression that the owner was going to move it but he clearly has not," the spokesman said.

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Yesterday, Rachel Worthington, 22, who works at the Ring O'Bells pub only yards from where the car was parked, said: "It is disgusting. It's like you are on a set from Shameless.

"It is horrible and it is dangerous. There is glass everywhere and kids stop and look at it."

And Cllr Cromie had said: "We are getting nowhere fast. The Council is reluctant, the police are reluctant."

One woman, who was walking past the car with two young children yesterday, said it had been there for at least two weeks.

One of her children briefly broke away to try to touch the car, before the woman stepped in.

The woman, who did not want to be named, said: "It is shocking. I think it is awful. Who is going to sort it out?"

She added: "It is tough on the owner probably, because it is potentially not their fault that the car has been left like this."

A man, who did not want to be named, said: "I have seen kids playing in it. It is dangerous and a mess."