Large sections of Green Drive were underwater for several hours on Saturday afternoon after severe rainfall.

Cars and buses all struggled to make their way along the street and local residents say many pedestrians got soaked.

Green Drive resident David Hewitt said: "The street is often like this when we get moderate to heavy rainfall.

"I have been writing to United Utilities about this for several years now but we are still experiencing problems. You only need to look at the photographs to see the problem."

But it was all very different eight hours earlier.

At 5am a magnificent sunrise lit up the skies early before the heavens opened.

A spokesman from United Utilities said: "In times of extremely heavy rainfall, it can take some time for the excess water to drain from the street in this area. We will look into this, by checking the local sewer and water course to make sure there are no impediments which might affect drainage.

"We are spending £140 million across our network by 2010 to increase the capacity of sewers, so that they can cope better when there is extremely heavy rainfall. This work has to be prioritised to deal with the most pressing cases first."