RESIDENTS are being reassured after council officers identified the mysterious yellow liquid that was seeping through the ceiling of one of Southampton's biggest tower blocks.

Council staff investigated Albion Towers after the Daily Echo reported that residents were worried by the appearance of the unknown substance.

But now it has been revealed that the liquid, which residents feared could be urine, was water that was yellow as it had been coloured by non-harmful materials such as cladding and paint it had been in contact with.

Mum-of-one Angela Chicken first contacted the Daily Echo after the substance seeped through the ceiling outside her flat in Albion Towers.

She said many residents in the building have been experiencing leaks, but this was the first time she was worried about it being a potential health hazard due to its luminous yellow colour.

It got so bad that she had to put out buckets to prevent it flooding through her front door, and she called on council workers to look into the leak.

And she said she feared for the health of her own son and other children playing on the floor, believing the liquid may be urine.

The 52-year-old said: “The council workers have been out and since then we haven't had a problem.

“Fingers crossed everything will be OK now. It was just that the colour of the liquid was quite disturbing.”

Residents in other parts of the 15-storey building, which contains 150 flats, have spoken to the Daily Echo about other leaks over the past month.

One, who asked not to be named, said water had seeped into the corridor in her flat in recent weeks.

She added: “We've been lucky really, but one of my neighbours had it worse, there was lots of water in there.”

And 28-year-old Billy Sherwood said the leaking problem had become worse in his ex-partner Melissa Jarman's flat in the past few weeks.

He said: “We had it coming in the flat, as well as outside in the corridor.

“It's been bad. Why should she have to redecorate because it's coming into the flat?”

Ward councillor John Noon, who has been looking into residents' concerns, said: “The yellow liquid is not a dangerous liquid.

“There's nothing harmful about it, it's just water that came into contact with things like cladding from pipes or paint, and was coloured.

“We're hoping now that most of the leaks have been repaired. We're still investigating, as we're not 100 per cent sure if the separate leaks are linked or if they are separate.”