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Andrew Issacs, 33, of Westbury Lane, Coombe Dingle and Kemar Lewis, 29, of Havilland House, St Judes appeared before North Avon Magistrates’ Court charged with illegal fly-tipping and failing to supply waste transfer notes. An operation mounted by Avon & Somerset Police and South Gloucestershire Council officers led to the men being arrested and charged.

The two men had been running a waste disposal firm under two names, Andrew & Sons House Clearance and Bristol Rubbish Clearance. They were contracted to remove a quantity of waste including derelict sheds from an address in St Andrews, Bristol but the waste was dumped in a country lane near the village of Tormarton, 15 miles from Bristol.

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A brazen house clearance fly-tipper has been handed a 12-month prison sentence at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court. George Smith (40) was caught not once but three times on film using tipper trucks to dump rubbish in Croydon streets.

Prosecutor Simon Kiely told the court, “Between February 12 and April 11 2016, George Smith committed four fly-tips within the Borough of Croydon. These fly-tips all involved the repeated dumping of large amounts of controlled waste in residential areas, and regularly involved entire loads of waste, both loose and inside plastic or polythene sacks, dumped from the back of a tipper truck.”

Smith had one tipper truck seized by officers from the London Borough of Croydon. But he persisted in his fly-tipping with a second vehicle which was also seized by the council. The council later crushed both vehicles.

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Plumber Neil Bishop, 44, of Millwood End, Long Hanborough in West Oxfordshire thought he could get away with some surreptitious fly-tipping. But what he didn’t know was that a concealed spy camera was watching his every move. The camera had been installed by officers from Cherwell District Council

And what the camera recorded led Bishop to an appearance at Bicester Magistrates’ Court where he was fined £750 and landed with a costs bill of £440.

Confronted with the damning footage, Bishop had little choice but to plead guilty to fly-tipping and to a charge of carrying waste without a licence.

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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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