Families in Benfleet were today celebrating their first decent night's sleep for months after a victorious battle to resurface their street.

Residents were rattled in their beds every night as coaches and trucks thundered along the rickety Kents Hill Road.

They claim the surface became bumpy when a water company dug it up for maintenance - and failed to re-fill the trenches properly.

Published Thursday October 17, 2002

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