'Spondon Pong' smell worse than ever say villagers

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Something needs to be done according to a councillor for a village plagued by the stench of "rotting meat and fish".

The so-called "Spondon Pong" is a long-running issue in the east of Derby, and residents said the smell this year is as bad as it's ever been and people are having to keep their windows closed.

Ward councillor Jonathan Smale told the BBC the smell at the beginning of June had made his stomach "curdle a little bit" and called on villagers to report the pong to Severn Trent and the Environmental Agency.

Severn Trent, which operates a food waste and green gas plant in Megaloughton Lane, said the smells were due to "liming" activity which it had now paused.