Chatting on another website and quite a few people all over London are commenting on a very strange smell in the air this morning – almost manure like.

I stuck my nose out of the window and sniffed, and yes there is definitely something in the air.

As the smell is being reported all over London, I phoned up the Met Office public helpline, and they haven’t had any reports or complaints from anyone else, but did suggest that there was a strong Easterly wind last night – whereas London usually gets a South-Easterly wind.

The Easterly wind could well have picked up smells from sewerage works out towards the Thames Gateway area – or even smells from the North Sea.