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Devon farm partnership fined almost 拢20k for repeat slurry pollution incidents

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A farmer has been fined following repeated pollution incidents
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A farmer has been fined following repeated pollution incidents

A farm partnership has been told to pay out 拢19,468 after improper slurry spreading led to multiple pollution incidents in a tributary of the River Yarty. Exeter Magistrates Court heard that D I & R...

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