Villagers have been dealing with the stench for months (Image: SWNS) A charming village was forced to pull out of a ‘best kept’ competition as Thames Water revealed that raw sewage was being released into its river for months. Residents of Chalfont St Giles, in Buckinghamshire, had been complaining extensively as a foul smell descended on the picturesque village, which has won the Best Kept title six times since 2002. Since learning of the cause behind the stomach-churning aroma, authorities have closed a children's playground, river walk and duck pond, and pulled out of the annual contest, which ranks villages on their tidiness, appropriateness, and typicality.
"We're all gutted”, Robert Gill, from the parish council, said. “We're parishioners ourselves and it took a lot of time for us to debate this. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.
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