What it's like to live next to a 25,000-tonne illegal waste dump - with rats everywhere

Dumping started at the site in Bickershaw, Wigan in late 2024. More than a year later, nothing has been done to clear the site - and families living just metres away are still suffering.

A mother has told us how her home has become a "prison", which forced her eight-year-old son to move out - after illegally dumped waste burned for nine days last year.
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