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When the Mountain fire broke out more than two weeks ago, Samuel and Florentino witnessed the all-too familiar hazy, gray sky and the smell of smoke as they harvested strawberries in an Oxnard field.

Indeed, speaking on The Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4, Baroness Mallalieu, a Labour peer and the president of the Countryside Alliance, said the government’s changes to inheritance tax relief “smell of incompetence” and that a "large part of our party has become urban... divorced from a big section of the community".

On the outskirts of Valencia in the town of Paiporta, which was hit hardest by the flood, a sludge of mud is everywhere, blocking drains so that many residents cannot use their toilets and the air carries the smell of sewage.

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.

Inspectors said the "smell of cannabis was rife" and 63% of prisoners said it was easy to get drugs, with one describing the jail like an "airport" because of the sheer number of smuggling drones.