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He said the fatberg could be the largest in British history.

But clearly neither had ever been in close proximity to a "fatberg."

The damage the fatberg had inflicted was estimated to cost £400,000 to repair and will take more than two months.

The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.

The video shows a camera that has been placed into the pipe by engineers as it move along beneath the fatberg.

April 2015: A 40-metre long fatberg was reported as having been removed from underneath Chelsea.

The biggest "fatberg" he has encountered was found near Savoy Gardens.

Back with the fatberg, I wanted to find it disgusting, but I somehow couldn't.

"Fatberg" is a portmanteau of fat + berg, modelled on iceberg.

Workmen spent 10 nights using high-pressure water jets to blast away the fatberg.

But deep underneath the streets, waxing slowly but ever so surely, the fatberg was a horror to us.

In this regard, and absolutely no other, Fatberg is a wonderful gift and its efficient destruction, a wasted opportunity.

Repairs on 20 metres of damaged pipe affected by the 'fatberg' started on Monday and are expected to take six weeks.

Last month, a "fatberg" the size of a double-decker bus was found under the streets of south-west London.

A fatberg beneath Kingston the size of a bus has attracted much media attention, most of it very unkind.

Perhaps the fatberg could be shredded in an enormous liquidiser and recycled more cheaply than the lab-grown product?

Thames Water was alerted to the unsavoury 'fatberg' after local residents complained they could no longer flush their toilets.

Considering their known disease-causing propensities, it makes more sense to be repulsed by the "fatberg" than the eel.

If you're not about to eat, you can see video of the fatberg shot by Thames Water and contractor County Clean at left.

I mean, if the Sewer Tsar isn't noticing the formation of an enormous fatberg, what else might he not be noticing?

Video footage has emerged showing the 15 foot, bus-sized mixtures of food waste and sanitary wipes now known by the nation as the 'fatberg'.

Had the colossal "fatberg" not been removed, it could have led to raw sewage flooding homes, streets and businesses, Thames Water said.

The size of a double-decker bus, this congealed clot of waste was the largest "fatberg" ever discovered in Britain.

It also released video footage of the fatberg, filmed by a remote vehicle gliding through the sewer like an underground amusement park ride.

What is astonishing about this latest fatberg is the sheer volume in one giant lump under a single street in an outer London suburb.