rotting

Hotter, longer drought conditions mean that instead of smelling pleasantly damp, rotting leaves on the forest floor, we get the ominous smell of dry, dusty ones.

The stereotypical image of a smoker may once have been an old, overweight man with rotting teeth, but that's now been replaced by the young and glamorous celebrities who pout at the camera mysteriously with a Marlboro Gold in hand.

“So then you ask yourself where do those people go? Well they move over to the next rotting neighbourhood. That’s not good.”

Locals spotted the emission - which they said smelled like "rotting fish" - coming from a waste pipe at the Lochyside flood defences into the River Lochy on Sunday.

The rotting, polluted lake is poisoning residents and wildlife.