Parking in a residential street has become 'so horrendous' people are fighting over spaces.

As parking wars erupt in Forest Fields, just a mile from Nottingham, locals have become fearful of punch-ups and verbal abuse by exasperated drivers unable to find a gap between bumper-to-bumper vehicles.

As residents are begging their council and police to step in to help provide a solution, one householder, Mr Singh sighed: 'The situation is just crazy.'

The 43-year-old retail manager, who has lived in one of the worst-hit streets - Burford Road - all his life said: 'There are physical punch-ups outside because of the parking nightmare, and people effing and blinding because there's no space anywhere near their home.

'You hear them shouting 'You f**** idiot' and as people get more wound up, and some here in this city having lost the plot, you wonder if it could result in a terrible injury or worse still a death.