according to residents.

And local Member of Parliament Mr. Nelson Bascome fears the weekend's awful aroma could be a health risk to local folk.

While Mr. Bascome was raising a stink about the dump many people living close to the dump or who have businesses nearby seem to have conceded that there is little that can be done to improve the situation in the short term.

Mr. Bascome said: "There is a lot of raw trash and animal carcasses being dumped there. It should be covered up with pulverised trash.

"The trash should be covered by sufficient material to reduce the smell but I have been told that there is not enough material to cover it. And there is not enough trash being pulverised.

"The smell at some times over the weekend was so bad it made some people feel faint.'' The Shadow Health Minister was backed by local residents. Mrs. Angelic Adderley, of Parsons Road, whose house backs onto the dump, said: "It makes me feel sick it is so bad at times. I moved here from St. George's three years ago and there has been a lot of sickness in my family. We have all suffered from diarrhoea.'' Mrs. Adderley is particularly worried about her two sons, aged nine and 11, when the stink starts.

She said: "We get it every summer but it has been particularly terrible over the weekend. You need to close your windows and doors even through the temperatures are high outside.

"If you look out now all you can see is raw waste. It has been dumped and not covered at all.'' She laughed at the suggestion that the dump is going to be covered and will become a park in the future.

Mrs. Joan Godfrey, at Godfrey's Bakery said that although she had not noticed the smell over the weekend all her customers had complained.

She said: "I have closed up the windows and kept the fans on. It was only when I went outside that I could smell anything. It depends which way the wind is blowing.'' Mr. Bascome said: "People are having to lock their doors and windows even though the weather is hot.''