‘An abomination’: the Lancashire town kicking up at stink from reopened landfill

Residents of Fleetwood say continuous foul smell from Transwaste site is causing illness and making life hell

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.”