Residents of the once-thriving West Midlands market town claim their local high street is now desolate as traders say they take home as little as £60 a day.

Liverpool City Council has started legal action against a developer it has accused of sitting on a set of eyesore properties in an 'abandoned' street that have frustrated a local community for years.

Vehicles of all kinds can get abandoned if their owner suddenly becomes unable or unwilling to look after them. Even ships sometimes get mysteriously abandoned, but a "ghost ship" is unlikely to ...