FURIOUS Friends of the Earth campaigners were poised to cause a big stink for water authority bosses - by dumping dead fish on their desks at the Warrington HQ.

The protest was over the North West Water Authority's caustic soda killing of more than 5,000 fish at Colne Water.

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