Steps taken to combat Oswaldtwistle fly plague (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Little b@stards are doing my head in!! I've killed about 100 in the last week, hopefully this is going to be sorted out ASAP!!

a meeting is being arranged for the people of oswaldtwistle to get together and discuss whats happening at the bottom of nook lane at 6pm tomorrow. (wednesday). hopefully LT will come along and granada reports

The meeting held tonight at the local pub Ticky's has proved that things should improve - but how long this will take could be weeks. It would also seem that there is more concerns that were first thought and that this is not the first time this has happened. One of my main fears is that people are not being advised to keep away from this area - there is a nature reserve next to this area - which it would seem is affecting the wild life - but people are not being advised to keep away from this area - surely this is advisable until we have full information as to the leakage of chemicals from the previous chemical site and the affect this and the waste at the moment is fully investigated.

there was no a warning sign of any kind, no official of any sort present, no cordon, no notice – health warning – hazard sign – nothing.

Wiggan council gave this rubbish its notice to leave as was being illegally dumped and why did Hyndburn Council give the green light to move it by Blakely’s into Oswaldtwistle?

Eighteen months ago, a member of Oswaldtwistle community complained to the council about large lorries traveling down small lanes at stupid o’clock in the morning. The council explained then that it was merely wind farm equipment being moved for a wind farm that does not presently exist.

Eighteen months later and the Ossy community became infested with flies; the same as Wiggan did oddly enough- what was supposed to be only card and plastic turned out to be household rubbish.

*** but the difference between Wiggan and Hyndburn is the site at Nook Lane is a well known declared chemically contaminated site***

The Cocker chemical plant that had already taken local life from its employee who constantly suffered with chest infections and the community that developed ms and leukemia, was closed in 2006 and declared a contaminated site.

When some of the buildings were demolished, the surrounding concrete was left remaining to act as a safety mechanism and it was agreed the land should not be disturbed for at least twenty years. Hyndburn Council forgot?

Hyndburn council decided to build a nature reserve surrounding an extremely dangerous toxic site. The idiots at Blakely’s decided it was a good idea to dig some very big 40 foot holes to bury the rubbish and have unleashed the smell of TCP back into the community 6 years after the plant has closed – all to save a buck.

After interviewing the Environmental Agency on site, it was explained that the fire service had been in regular attendence to see whats what and has expressly stated their men would not go near that black pit of **** which means it must be an extreme hazard to life as nothing stops firemen and women from saving life.

When asked, the EA said they would not be testing the black pit as ‘they’ know whats in it and are taking water samples from the stream only to “appease the public”. The public does not know whats in that pit but the EA and the council does. They knew long before the holes began to be dug on a chemical factories condemned contaminated toxic site where mine shafts also run beneath.

I would say its a bit of an ecological catastrophe and a potential disaster waiting to happen to be perfectly honest.