Richard Berkley has had to contend with foul-smelling water around his home in Playhatch, near Reading.

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The country's political system has fallen into a muddy, sticky, foul-smelling quagmire.

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Fish were plentiful, but U.K. kids would not eat the foul-smelling creatures.

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If these kept melting the way they had for six weeks, we joked, our retirement homes might be like the foul-smelling tents at Camp Gold.

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" Joe and his family were in "one half of the attic consisting of three rooms, which were so low that a person of medium height could not stand erect a filthy, foul-smelling home.

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To ward off anticipated Palestinian demonstrations in the wake of the UN vote in New York, Israeli soldiers armed with stun-grenades, tear-gas and a foul-smelling liquid known as skunk have moved into settlements near Palestinian towns.

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The environmental protection chief of Cangxian county in northern Hebei has quit after initially dismissing villagers' complaints over the deaths of around 700 chickens from drinking foul-smelling polluted underground "red water" in the region since last November, notes China Daily.

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Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.

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The two companies will develop the Bab field, a potentially tricky project because it contains so-called sour gas, a poisonous and foul smelling product.

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