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"It's an insult": Couple whose home was almost destroyed by sinkhole offered £200 for cleaning products

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A couple whose street was destroyed by a sinkhole fear their home may not be structurally safe – labelling a £200 council grant towards cleaning products an “insult”.

Stephen and Maureen Kennedy were forced to evacuate their home on Walmer Street after a sinkhole left a scene of utter devastation.

The hole first appeared on the evening of January 20 after Manchester was battered by Storm Christoph. It swallowed a car before going on to collapse two properties the following day.

Manchester City Council handed those affected £3,400 in emergency food payments in the weeks following the disaster. But the couple, both aged 72, feel they have now been left to fend for themselves.

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