HOUSE WON'T SELL - NEED TO GET OUT !!

We bought our house in April 1998 and paid #40K (#4K deposit, #36K mortgage). It's at the back of a pub which we thought would be really handy, my only reservation was that my hubby would find it too handy. The vendors told us the pub was being refurbished, we asked them if there was any trouble from the pub, they said, no more than any other. On the night we moved in, the pub re-opened (17/4/98) and it's been absolute hell ever since. We've complained about noise to environmental health, police, council - but no-one will do anything - they say its up to us to take them to court - something we don't want to do because then we'll get the backlash. We get bombarded with music so we can't hear our television, can't get to sleep before midnight (when the pub throws out), customers pee up the side of the pub, throw glasses, fight, smoke drugs, it is a nightmare. We put house up for sale in October 99 for #43K; we've done it up a bit, in 8 months we've had one offer (asking price is now down to #40K) - the people offering to buy have a house to sell. We've got the chance and intend to move to a lovely rented property which we know well, away from everything and are desperate to leave. The date the property comes vacant is in mid-August and we're nowhere near selling/completing. We;ve told the Estate Agent (HPS) we're handing the keys in if it's not sold by then, they've said they'll take us to court - we just can't live like this anymore, it's making us ill. What do we do?

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