BBC News
By Sophie Madden
media captionSilverdale landfill stink: We can t live like this
For hundreds of households the terrible smell emanating from a landfill site near their homes in Staffordshire is affecting their health and lives. The BBC went to meet some of those affected.
Every evening after dinner, Annie Miles and her husband Lee Hughes have a routine. Towels are rolled and put down to block the gaps beneath doors and cover air bricks. Doors to the pantry and utility rooms are sealed with tape and an air purifier is switched on.
They live about 800m from Walleys Quarry, a landfill site near the village of Silverdale that has rarely been out of the headlines for weeks. Their nightly routine is to try to avoid headaches and being unable to sleep because of the stench, dubbed the Silverdale stink.
The queue for JD Sports inside The Potteries Centre in Hanley
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Eager shoppers joined the queues outside of Pandora, JD Sports, H&M and Superdrug as Stoke-on-Trent s biggest shopping centre reopened its non-essential stores.
They were some of the first customers to arrive at Hanley s The Potteries Centre this morning (April 12).