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Dairy farm fined over 拢10,000 for pollution and breaching slurry regulations

Environment Agency warns businesses to comply with regulations or face similar action

Chris Brayford
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Slurry pollution in the Ribble Valley's Tun Brook. Credit: Environment Agency
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Slurry pollution in the Ribble Valley's Tun Brook. Credit: Environment Agency

A dairy farm has been ordered to pay costs exceeding 拢10,000 for polluting a watercourse on more than one occasion and breaching slurry regulations. In a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency...

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