A STINKING house had to be fumigated after council workers found rotting animal corpses inside.
The rooms were crawling with flies and covered in urine and excrement when environmental health officers forced their way into the house in Staffa Crescent, Blackburn, after neighbours complained. They found a dead dog, four dead cats and human and animal excrement.
And veteran paperboy Arthur Glanister was still first with the news - despite being 80 years old.
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