Sweat, garlic and rotten eggs: foul smell arrives from France [1]

AS IF the snow and freezing temperatures were not enough, parts of southern England are today sitting below a cloud of foul-smelling gas that has drifted across the Channel after a leak at a gas plant in France.

The smell of rotten eggs now hangs over most of northern France and parts of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and has even reached London. The non-toxic gas, called Mercaptan, escaped after an accident at a factory in Rouen, 60 miles north west of Paris, yesterday.

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