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Calls for fly-tippers to be sentenced for 'blighting' rural and farming communities

With around two-thirds of UK farmers and landowners being subject to fly-tipping, is it time for offenders to receive more severe punishment?

Chris Brayford
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CLA rural adviser Jane Harrison said: "It [fly-tipping] blights rural communities, with many incidents going unrecorded on a mass scale. Offences on private land in particular are often not reported as many farmers have little faith in the ability of the police or council to deal with fly-tipped waste – which landowners then have to remove at their own cost."
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CLA rural adviser Jane Harrison said: "It [fly-tipping] blights rural communities, with many incidents going unrecorded on a mass scale. Offences on private land in particular are often not reported as many farmers have little faith in the ability of the police or council to deal with fly-tipped waste – which landowners then have to remove at their own cost."

Rural businesses need greater protections to deal with the consequences of waste crime, according to politicians and farmers. Fly-tipping Labour MP for Lichfield Dave Robertson raised the issue during...

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