Clean Up Underway

A complex clean up operation is underway at a one hundred acre property
near Husbands Bosworth after investigations revealed it had become a
massive dumping ground.

Environment Agency officials are on the scene at Firs Farm – on the
western side of Welford Road – following the discovery of a large
quantity of piled up rubbish and other illegal waste.

Locals reported a stench of “death and decay” drifting across the
village from the tenanted County Council farm hundreds of yards away.

It’s said the tenant – who used to keep around 80 dairy cattle there –
can’t now be found.

The site has now been secured by the Council – and a cross-agency
investigation into what’s suspected to be a major environmental incident
has been launched.

Waste dumped at farm outside Husbands Bosworth.
PICTURE: ANDREW CARPENTER