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Compton Bassett

A close-up shot of a generic picture of farming machinery. It shows a red quad bike on grass with hay and mud on it. There are two people sitting on it, who are partly shown and are wearing blue. One is holding a yellow bucket. There is a large green tractor next to it, but you can just see the wheel.

Large quantity of agricultural machinery stolen

A trailer was likely to have been used to moved the "substantial quantity" of machinery, say police.

A view looking down the road into the Hills Lower Compton Waste site. A sign for it to the left, with shipping containers behind a fence and green trees down the right hand side.

'Landfill site could be causing town's eggy smell'

The Environment Agency investigation found the odour could be caused by emissions from the site.