Mystery over who's been flushing cutlery down the toilet

Hundreds of knives, forks and spoons flushed down a toilet recently caused a blockage in Chaddesden, Derby.

The blockage caused sewage to back up in the area.



Helen Fee, customer operations manager for Severn Trent Water said: “How on earth people have managed to flush this amount of cutlery, I don’t know.

“You wouldn’t think knives and forks would fit down a toilet, but this is just one example of amazing things we find blocking the sewers.”