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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sian Harrison

Life in 'UK’s smelliest village' where stench left boy struggling to breathe

A vulnerable child has been left struggling to breathe and with blood pouring out of his nose due to a smelly landfill site, his mum has said.

Rebecca Currie, who lives near Walleys Quarry in Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, brought legal action against the Environment Agency on behalf of five-year-old son Mathew Richards.

She says that the "stink" that wafts through the village is causing him to fall badly ill.

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