Families cooped up inside during the coronavirus lock-down have been plagued by vast swarms of flies which have turned a town into a 'war zone'.
For years the people of Avonmouth near Bristol have been bombarded by clouds of flies buzzing into their village from nearby waste plants.
Triggered by the early warm weather this year the flies have arrived again, taking off from the 42 recycling centres surrounding Avonmouth.
Locals report flies flying onto their food, landing on their babies while they sleep and swarming around their homes. "It is a nightmare, it's a living hell," Christine Chard, an ardent anti-fly activist, told Mirror Online. "It takes two of us to cook tea, one to cook/prepare, the other to try to beat off the flies. "Th