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Two fly-tippers were caught out by an undercover operation mounted by Liverpool City Council officers and police. George Parry, 55, and David Smith, 53, both of Aspes Road, West Derby were captured on film as they dumped tonnes of dangerous waste outside a school.

The two men fly-tipped the waste, including sheets of asbestos and sacks of broken asbestos, by the Jade School for Dance gates in Back Broadway, Liverpool. In fact, the men had been spotted dumping rubbish at the same site on several occasions. They had been running a man-and-van service.

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A builder who used an unlicensed waster carrier has lived to regret his decision. Instead of going to a council tip, the crew he hired to dispose of his builders waste simply dumped it on land off the A46, near the village of Norton Disney in Lincolnshire.

But enforcement officials from North Kesteven District Council sorted through the dumped waste and found paper work that identified builder Phillip Partridge, 29, of Eastgate, Bassingham.

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You might think that if you paid a man with a van to take away your rubbish and they then fly-tip it, it would be the van man who took the rap. But mother of five Kelly Holland, 38, of Allerton, Derby found out the hard way that such is not the case.

Holland paid a man that she’d come across of Facebook £40 to dispose of some old furniture. But her discarded household goods tuned up at a roadside in the village of Strelley in Nottinghamshire. Officers from Broxtowe Borough Council found the rubbish. And unluckily for Holland they found a wage slip with her details on it among the debris.

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