he wretched inhabitants of Dickens's story struggle to live amid the slums and brutality of Victorian times - for the tenants of Bleak House Estate, Burnley, little seems to have changed. With no money to modernise, and no clear idea of what else to do, the council want the estate off their hands with a quick sale. But many of the tenants have lived there for 30 years or more - no matter how bad things are, their roots are there.