Cruise and Holmes' new mansion 'stinks'

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' new British love nest is currently uninhabitable – because it stinks of sewage.

The newlyweds will not be able to make use of the £2.5 million mansion for a while because of an unbearable smell, caused by sewage works.

The appalling stench has been caused by Tom and Katie's neighbours in Dormans Park village emptying their garden drains.

Neighbour Emma Tanning told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "The smell is absolutely putrid when the cesspits are being emptied. If Tom moves in before the work is completed it won't be smelling very pretty. I don't think Katie will be happy."

The works are expected to last into the New Year.

Surrey District councillor Robert Bisset admitted: "Dormans Park is a real mess. They are in the process of putting in sewers but it's a big job."

Tom and Katie - who are have been honeymooning on a yacht in the Maldives – bought the six-bedroom property so they could visit the British Scientology headquarters Saint Hill Castle, which is just three kilometres away.

The couple already own a Beverly Hills mansion and an eight-bedroom retreat in Colorado.

- BANG! SHOWBIZ