The Telegraph
‘It blasts out’: The sewage battle that could scupper Labour’s new homes plan
Sometimes, when there’s heavy rain in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, waste bursts from the drain below Ian and Lilian McDonald’s garden with such force that it lifts the manhole and its heavy concrete base in the middle of the couple’s immaculate lawn, spewing gallons of ankle-deep dark brown sewage for days. “It blasts out. It makes a pool that rotates with bog roll and everything in it,” says Ian, 87, a retired RAF worker, pointing to his pond at the bottom of the garden where most ends up. “