A DISGUSTED Chard pensioner has called in the council’s help after falling victim to a particularly filthy habit.

Last week, Anne Clark discovered that someone has been routinely stuffing dirty nappies into her front garden wall.

Having been alerted by a neighbour to the smelly stockpile, the 74-year-old contacted South Somerset District Council to help her with the clear-up.

Some of the used nappies are in plain sight, but many of the deposits have been wedged between her garden wall and fence.

“I was just absolutely disgusted,”

Mrs Clark told The News. “I was alerted to it by a neighbour who asked if I knew someone had been changing their baby and leaving them on my wall.

“I went to inspect it and there were two dirty ones between the wall and the fence and a load more stuck further down.

“I often get sandwich packets and drinks bottles left there, but dirty nappies is something else, there is no excuse for it.

“It is disgusting and I don’t see why I should clear it up, I can’t even reach some of them.

“Now, if is a mother in need of some help, than I would much rather knock on my door and I will offer it to her, but this is just horrid.”

The Crewkerne Road resident feared that, if left alone, the pile will attract unwanted insects.

She added: “It is a health hazard, especially here by the hospital, these things will start to attract blowflies and all sorts. I have asked the district council to help sort it out and I received a response to say they are looking into it, but I would ask whoever is responsible to cut it out.”

This week is Somerset Waste Partnership’s Real Nappy Week, where parents are being urged to use re-usable nappies to help the environment.

A Somerset Waste Partnership spokesman said: “Real nappies are cheaper than disposables, better for the environment, and do not leave a lingering, polluting legacy of your child in the Somerset countryside for hundreds of years.”

For more information on real nappies visit www.somersetwaste.gov.uk/more/nappies.