A farmer who barricaded suspected fly-tippers in Warwickshire says he is “livid” because the issue happens at least once a week. Two vans dumped large piles of rubbish on Maxstoke Lane on the Packington Estate near Meriden in what Warwickshire Police described as “some of the worst fly-tipping we had seen in a long time”. […]
Fly-tipping in England had to be cleaned up 1.08 million times by local councils in 2022-23, the latest government figures reveal. Clearing the largest illegal tips cost £13.2m, but the number of court fines dropped by 17%, raising just £785,000. The figures, released on Wednesday, do not put a value on all fly-tipping costs and […]