Stop down-playing

The report in the Observer concerning the Lidsey Landfill '˜pong', as your reporter chose to call it, recounts soothing words from councillor Derek Whittington, running the full gamut of feeble excuses, that cut no ice with those of us with lives blighted by the disgusting stench.

To say that it was ‘a small amount of gas escaping into the air, causing a localised and intermittent odour problem’ is insulting to say the least, when we first reported this to the environment Agency in June last year and have diligently reported as requested, on many subsequent occasions.

The problem can only be described as intermittent thanks to the variable wind pattern, shifting the concentration from one part of our area to another.