AN elderly resident says he cannot believe a coach is filling his road with fumes after companies spent so much time complaining about fuel prices.

Edward Edwards, 80, from Hollis Road, Totteridge, said a coach has parked in his road every weekday for a month and spends at least half an hour a day waiting there with the engine running.

Mr Edwards said: "They used to park further down the road but the people complained and they ended up down here.

"We got on to the environmental people and they got up there.

"My question to all these businesses is after all this fuel business how can a coach stand there for at least half an hour running its engine five days a week?

"There were plenty of protests from coach companies and lorry drivers about the price of fuel."

A spokesman for Wycombe District Council, said: "We have received a complaint about the fumes from a coach that parks in Hollis Road and although we have no statutory powers to control this, we have contacted the coach company on an informal basis.

"We were advised the practice of leaving the engine of this coach running in Hollis Road would cease forthwith, but unfortunately this does not appear to have happened.

"If the complainant confirms the practice is continuing, we will contact the company again."

Alan Williams, spokesman for the coach company, Chalfont Coaches, said: "It has already been dealt with and I have sorted it out with the council."