Residents in one neighbourhood outside Sheffield are determined to make their shoddy homes and derelict surrounding properties an issue in the general election.
A few miles to the east of Rotherham lies Maltby. A former mining town in South Yorkshire, it's in the heart of Rother Valley - a constituency that, until 2019, always had a Labour MP. As the candidates do battle this time around, the residents in one neighbourhood are determined to make the shoddy state of their homes a key focus of the election campaign here.
The bathrooms are often encased in a layer of perishing polystyrene. Denise McBride spends her days bleaching mould from the walls of her home. Each morning she turns her grandson's mattress on its side to keep it away from the damp wall in his room. She claims the industrial-strength cleaning products she's been forced to use so often have destroyed her sinuses. And she's determined to make tenants' rights an election issue. When asked who she blames, she reels off a list.
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