That's unfortunate. The stench is creeping up the hill to Keele Uni etcThey've tarmaced the entrance - that’s why it has been coned off. They’re still dumping rubbish on it based on the Facebook photos though
Anybody here from Stoke on Trent who can smell the smell?
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Do you get the smell where you are?
I live in Blurton (Heron Cross side) and it's never hit here yet although people in Fenton, Longton and even Weston Coyney have got the smell.
A couple of times when cycling near the incinerator over the top of the A500 I've got a whiff.
Working at the hospital I've only smelt it once but staff are always complaining.
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The smell is in Newcastle smarty bum.
The thread is about can people in Stoke smell it and it's just up one small part of Stoke that it reaches.
That's unfortunate. The stench is creeping up the hill to Keele Uni etc
Yeah it’s really down to how ‘lucky’ you are with the wind direction that day.
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Your smelly town is on BBC breakfast just now
That's Newcastle, not Stoke on Trent in the title
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Your point is?
Silverdale is in the Borough of Newcastle under Lyme, it's where the quarry is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverdale,_Staffordshire
My question is can anybody who lives in Stoke on Trent smell it, everybody in the Borough of Newcastle can.
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Silverdale is in Newcastle-under-Lyme, not Stoke-on-Trent.
Those who know - know.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-56347375
In an area called Silverdale is Whalley's Quarry and it is exactly 1 mile from OCUK so I'm sure all the staff can smell it.
I first came across it 2 years ago when I went to my mates house and told him to ring the gas board but he said 150 metres over that fence is a landfill.
Since then an absolutely massive area of Stoke have consistently complained about it, it is awful and getting worse.
I work about 1.5 miles from it at the hospital and it reaches wards including NICU, I couldn't believe when I walked in the ward of very poorly babies and the smell was in there.
This is just a rant but interested to know how many Stokies and OCUK staff suffer this daily?
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Second morning in a row that I’ve actually vomited in my sleep at 6am, sat up and the bedroom stinks of gas. What are we breathing in ?
I've fainted 3 times walking past it
It's making me so bad I cant eat a meal I'm throwing up bad stomach sore eyes bad head aches I have a baby with breathing difficulties and is on oxygen to look after and my partner who has kidney problem it's a joke how they are killing us off
Rotting Putrid stench in our home again tonight Westbury Park
Reported EA Ref number 1921607
Can't believe the stench this morning it's all through my house.
and so on ............
The point was...............your smelly town was on the telly.
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I don't live in Newcastle, I live in Stoke.
You need to learn to read, it really isn't that hard to follow.
So you made absolutely no reference to the dump in Newcastle under Lyme in your op and how smelly the dump is? Which is why I said your smelly town was mentioned on the TV? It's not that difficult to put 2 and 2 together.
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It's there in the story I linked, you have to read or else you look like an idiot
Hundreds of people contacted Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council at the end of February about the smell coming from Walleys Quarry in Silverdale.
I even mention OCUK in the OP and guess what their address is?
Overclockers UK (OCUK Ltd)
Unit 5 Lymedale Cross
Lower Milehouse Lane
Newcastle-under-Lyme
‘It’s terrifying’: the English village overwhelmed by landfill stink | Landfill | The Guardian
Some people reported getting nosebleeds from this!
Some people reported getting nosebleeds from this!
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Nosebleeds are the least of their worries, people are really suffering.
This is the main Facebook page where you can read peoples constant moans - https://www.facebook.com/groups/stink
It's even hitting the main hospital in Newcastle on the wards so patients are getting it.
I have so many friends who live over in Newcastle and are suffering daily.
My son had one the other day when the wind was blowing in our direction. We live slap bang in the middle of the Westlands, about a mile from the site as the crow flies. Luckily for us the prevailing wind generally sends the stink toward Silverdale but on colder days when the wind is from the north we get it instead.
There was another protest outside the site on Monday. The EA are also dragging their feet about taking any action. They have history with Red, and as I understand it Red won in court leaving the EA rather embarrassed and so rather unwilling to push much harder. The council are trying to put together a case for nuisance but again I can’t see it coming to much. They need much more support from Westminster to sort this one.