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Farmer fined £11,000 for polluting watercourse with slurry

A farmer from Somerset has been fined £11,000 for polluting a watercourse with slurry in three separate incidents for the second time in five years.

Hannah Binns
News Reporter
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Farmer fined £11,000 for polluting watercourse with slurry

On January 30 2020 the watercourse was again found to be polluted with slurry due to spreading activity on nearby fields which had led to run-off into the ditch. Mr Hembrow was ordered to pay the Environment...

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