Bus-sized fatberg weighing 40 tonnes cleared from London sewer

Blockage in Greenwich prompts Thames Water to reissue warning about waste disposal

A 40-tonne fatberg the size of a double-decker bus has been cleared from a London sewer by Thames Water engineers who pulled out some of it by hand.

The mass of fat, grease and other materials that weighed the same as three red buses, was discovered earlier this year clogging up a sewer in Greenwich, the water company said.