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The school is in an area of Halifax with high deprivation, and has a uniform bank as well as a laundrette to wash pupils' uniforms.

You can't convince me that watching a man run along a beach howling after learning about his partner's infidelity doesn't make for more engaging TV than a couple shouting faux insults at each other in the laundrette.

Kureshi first shot to fame in 1985 when his screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette - about the relationship between a British Pakistani boy and his white boyfriend - was nominated for both a Bafta and an Oscar.

Ian's neighbour, he says, is convinced he is secretly running a laundrette from his home and that she can hear noisy machines through the wall.

Also affected are the three businesses that take up the ground floor of the corner block - a laundrette, a takeaway and a pub.