Residents 'shocked' as village is blocked in by 80ft-long mound of dumped rubbish

Residents person described their "shock" astatine waking up to observe an 80ft-long mound of rubbish blocking the lone roadworthy to their Staffordshire village.

Jeremy and Tammie Roney, who ain the Mercia Distillery, were among those blocked successful owed to the huge, 10ft-high discarded heap connected Watery Lane, adjacent Curborough.

Speaking to Sarah-Jane Mee connected The UK Tonight, the mates said the heap was made up of "household discarded [and] gathering waste" - and adjacent included needles.

"It's rather shocking really," Mrs Roney said. "You person to spot it to judge it. It's a substance of antithetic materials."

The village's lone different entree roadworthy is presently unopen owed to roadworks.

The authorities person been "brilliant" and portion residents thought the removal process could instrumentality a week, they've managed to wide the 30-tonne mound of discarded successful conscionable 2 days, she added.

Officials are present turning their attraction to moving retired who is liable for the fly-tipping.

Mr Roney said unit from the assembly "really went through" the "astonishing" mound of discarded successful a bid to find immoderate documents oregon paperwork that could uncover names linked to the incident.

"They had stacks and stacks of paperwork from each country of the tipping truthful we're precise assured they'll find somebody," helium said.

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Lichfield District Council believes the discarded was dumped successful 2 drop-offs - 1 astatine 11pm connected Sunday nighttime and a 2nd astatine 12.45am connected Monday.

It is appealing for dashcam footage of 2 tipper-like lorries caught connected CCTV successful the area. Anyone with accusation is being urged to interaction the council.