{"id":492084,"date":"2026-03-24T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:59:13","slug":"oil-pollution-causes-nauseating-stench-in-market-harborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492084\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil pollution causes &#8216;nauseating&#8217; stench in Market Harborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Hill, Leicestershire county councillor for the area, added: &#8220;There&#8217;s a major clear-up going on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a smelly, dieselly slick in an area that&#8217;s popular with dog walkers. It&#8217;s pretty horrible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s only about 60m (196ft) from the nearest homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was a fear it would end up in the River Welland, but I think that has been prevented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC asked the EA how much oil had leaked into the ditch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the agency said: &#8220;We are aware of an oil pollution in a drainage ditch adjacent to the A6 road on the eastern side of Market Harborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We ask that the public avoids the site until the clean-up is complete, to allow the contractors to continue their important work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The agency said it had not seen an impact on wildlife and that it was monitoring the situation as the clean-up continued on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harborough District Council leader Phil Knowles said the authority had offered to help the EA with the clean-up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Hill, Leicestershire county councillor for the area, added: &#8220;There&#8217;s a major clear-up going on. &#8220;It&#8217;s a smelly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}