Residents say they are living in fear on 'Britain's roughest street' which is rife with £5 prostitutes, teenagers being stabbed and drug addicts 'everywhere'.

Slade Road in Stockland Green, Birmingham, is said to be a hotbed of violence and drugs which has spiralled into decline over the last few years.

Locals say they are too frightened to go out after dark following numerous attacks, street robberies and drug dealing, which even goes on in broad daylight.

People say they are also approached by cut-price sex workers peddling their trade along the street for as little as a fiver.

Parents are forced to drop their children directly at the school gates and business owners are escorted to the post office in fear of being mugged for their takings.

Residents also say drunk people and 'zombiefied' addicts constantly roam the streets and some are too frightened to visit the shops by themselves during the day.

They say the problem has got worse over the last decade and police are rarely seen along the street, which has been dubbed 'Britain's roughest'.