What it's like to live next to a 25,000-tonne illegal waste dump - with rats everywhere
January 20, 2026
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as posted by the channelA mother has told Sky News how her home has become a "prison" which forced her eight-year-old son to move out - after 25,000 tonnes of illegally dumped waste burned for nine days last year.
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