Environment
Money from fly-tipping fines to be ringfenced for local clean-ups
New rules ringfencing the money raised from fixed penalty notices for fly-tipping and littering to be spent on local clean-up...
Environment
New rules ringfencing the money raised from fixed penalty notices for fly-tipping and littering to be spent on local clean-up...
Rural Life
Recent incidences of fly-tipping on farms in north and east Hertfordshire meant they were “blighted by tonnes of rubbish”, according...
Environment
Fly-tipping offences in Scotland are now punishable by on-the-spot fines of £500 as new regulations come into force. The new...
Environment
West Oxfordshire District Council has said it will increase fixed penalty notices to the maximum allowed by the government to...
Environment
The maximum amount that people caught fly-tipping could be fined in a fixed-notice penalty has been increased from £400 to...
Environment
The UK government has announced £775,000 in grant money for councils to help them combat fly-tipping. Environment Minister Rebecca Pow...
Environment
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has said that the increasing incidences of fly-tipping on “private rural land” were...
Government
The Public Accounts Commitee (PAC) has concluded that progress by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in...
Rural Life
A Hampshire man who used Facebook to facilitate his fly-tipping offences has been prosecuted by Wiltshire Council. Nicholas Farmer of...
Environment
A tipper truck linked to fly-tipping illegally dumped waste across London has been seized and crushed by the Environment Agency....
Rural Life
A man rang police demanding they return his van, which was caught being used for fly-tipping at a beauty spot...
Other
A fly-tipper from Devon who failed to clear the waste that he dumped has appeared in court for contempt. Vitor...
Government
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced new measures to crack down on fly-tipping across the...
Rural Life
Environment Minister Jo Churchill has today (Friday, January 21) unveiled new plans to crackdown on waste crime, i.e. fly-tipping and...
Government
The Scottish government have opened a public consultation for people to share their thoughts on proposed measures to prevent litter...
Rural Life
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA), together with over 150 local authorities and 10 professional bodies, is calling on...
Rural Life
A Bristol man has been prosecuted for fly-tipping waste in Avonmouth by the Environment Agency after being caught on CCTV....
Rural Life
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called for urgent action to tackle fly-tipping, as new figures from the Environment Agency...