EVERY ornament in Audrey Holmes's tidy living room has its proper place - and it's stuck there, literally.

Long-suffering Audrey, pictured, and her husband George have taken to glueing down their favourite mementoes to stop them being smashed to smithereens by wagons rumbling past their home.

Each day precious china animals would be rocked from their resting places on the mantlepiece, windows and fireplace by the lumbering lorries travelling through Pool-in-Wharfedale.

Now George and Audrey have said 'enough is enough' and stick them down using Uhu's White Tack. At their home in Arthington Lane, George, 70, said: "The lorries rattle and bang as they go past and you can watch the ornaments walking forward.

"We came down one morning and Audrey had some willow pattern plates and a model of a little boy which had smashed on the floor - his head was knocked off. So we decided we had to stick them down."

The heavy traffic has another side effect by spraying water which collects along the road against the walls of the house. Wallpaper in the Holmes's sitting room is peeling off.

Audrey, 67, said: "When the rain is really bad it's just like sitting on Blackpool pier, the water smashes up against the side of the house."

Neither is hopeful the situation will be resolved.

George said: "It's the heavy goods vehicles which are the trouble along here and through the village but there's not much that can be done about it unless they ban lorries, which is impossible."

And in the meantime George and Audrey's ornaments will remain glued to the spot.

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