Residents in a quiet corner of Devon are being driven up the wall by an armada of driving schools they say are invading their streets.
The locals in Clyst St Mary, near Exeter, believe they have counted more than 100 individual driving schools using residential roads to practise manoeuvres such as reverse parking and emergency stops, leaving dented bumpers and skid marks in their wake.
Now householders in Clyst Valley Road, which is a favourite route for instructors, have got together to organise a petition to keep the learners out.
Marie Mirams, 78, has been closely following the influx of driving schools, compiling a dossier to submit to Highways Agency officials.
Between November and June this year she photographed an incredible 230 different vehicles from driving schools.
Marie bemoaned the transformation of a "lovely residential area" into what she termed "Driving School Alley".
"It is horrendous," she added.
"It is day after day. All you can hear is revving engines."
However, residents have been told by police and local councillors that, provided they don't commit an offence, the driving schools are perfectly within their rights to use the streets of Clyst St Mary.
East Devon District councillor Bob Peachey said: "The only way to reduce the volume would be through their goodwill."
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