For three months, residents of Daubhill’s Georgina Court have been ignorant of football results, weather and news. They share a communal aerial that has been broken for a two-story block of flats and neighbouring houses, leaving them unable to watch television. Bill Ingham, 69, said: “It gets loads of glitches, the picture breaks up and then it goes off and says there’s no signal.
“I’m not a telly addict, but I like it on in the morning. “It's driving me mad. There’s nothing worse than watching half of the football match and it goes off, it does your head in.
” Bill lives in Georgina Court’s two-story house. His neighbour Lilian Farrington, 90, found out that television didn’t work throughout the building. Lilian said: “At first, I thought it was just my telly going off, but then everybody else’s started to.
“You put the television on in the morning and it’s alright for five, maybe ten minutes then it starts cracking up and going blank or blue. Bill Ingham and Lilian Farrington (Image: Newsquest) “Sometimes I get a big banging noise.” Most of the residents are elderly and have had no other option for television.
Bill said: “People who have [streaming] can watch through the internet. “I don’t have internet. I rely on the communal aerial.
” Over three months, they have tried contacting their housing provider, The Guinness Partnership, to fix it and received the same response. Lilian said: “They say they have to wait [for two months] for t.