A WORCESTER couple claim foul-mouthed builders are making their life a misery.

Ron Jones said he and his wife Hilary, aged 64, are fed up with workers on the housing development behind their home swearing and playing their radio loudly.

Mr Jones, 66, of Grayling Close, St Peter's, said if the situation at Hamilton Grange - a former oil depot - continues, he will call the police.

"We ask them to cut the language out and all we get is ridicule from these people," he said. "It's obscene as far as I'm concerned. It's just not good enough."

Mr Jones said they were particularly upset when their 10-year-old granddaughter Hannah visited them and witnessed the bad language.

He said the builders had also mocked his wife when she asked them to stop.

"I'm not having these people abusing my wife," he said.

"We keep ringing the building site and apparently they are told to cut it out, but they keep doing it."

Persimmon Homes secured planning permission to develop 91 homes on the former Ministry of Defence plot near Homebase last summer. When work started, residents claimed their lives were being blighted by noise and dust.

Martin Howard, construction director for Persimmon Homes South Midlands said: "We are conscious of the fact that building work generates a degree of noise and we are doing everything in our power to limit its impact on local residents. With this in mind, work at Hamilton Grange does not start until 8am and never continues past 5pm, as is the case with other active developments.

"We have been in discussion with the local planning enforcement officer and with the police over the level of inconvenience caused by the development and we have been repeatedly reassured that our activities fall within regulations.

"Hamilton Grange is continuously monitored by an environmental health officer to ensure intrusion levels remain within legal requirements. As for the separate issue of alleged use of foul language, we have passed the concern over to our subcontractor responsible for supervising the workers."

A police spokesman said using foul language could be viewed as anti-social.

He said where a complaint was made, officers would investigate.