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Building work has stopped as part of an investigation into a "very pungent" smell coming from a building site next to a school in east London. Residents raised concerns about a chemical odour ...

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Construction has been halted at the site on Wallis Road Building work has stopped as part of an investigation into a "very pungent" smell coming from a building site next to a school in east London.