In the week that many families went to the coast for the fresh sea air or the tang of fish and chips, visitors to one Lancashire resort inhaled a rather more unpleasant aroma. “Welcome to Fleetwood,” read the local newspaper headline. “The town that smells of bin juice.” For more than two years, the former fishing port has been choked by a putrid pong from a reopened landfill site that has prompted more than 20,000 complaints to the Environment Agency. Despite promises to tackle the smell, which residents have compared with rotten eggs and animal excrement, many say it is
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