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Fly-tipping still 'too high', says NFU

Calls for the Government to start taking the issue of fly-tipping seriously, by increasing the maximum penalty from 拢400 to 拢1000

Rachael Brown
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Fly-tipping still 'too high', says NFU

Defra figures show just over a million fly tipping cases in England, a figure which the NFU says is too high with concerns that the issue has only got worse in the last five years. Fly-tipping NFU...

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