Wife of 9th Earl Bathurst apologises after her country estate sprays human ...

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A countess has had to apologise 'for the pong' after her country estate sprayed human excrement on to the fields.

Locals said the smell was like 'rotten fish and ammonia' and prevented them sunbathing in their gardens yesterday.

Countess Bathurst, of grade-I listed Cirencester Park in Gloucestershire, the second wife of the 9th Earl Bathurst, admitted on Facebook: 'We have to hold our hands up to this one – the farm has been spreading biosolids on the fields. They place huge nutrients back into the ground and are ploughed in once spread.' 

The Bathurst Estate said a contractor spread treated sewage from Wessex Water on the fields near Cirencester. It was banking on the wind to take the smell away – but the wind dropped. 

Local resident

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